Howard Osmond McFarlane was an English jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 trumpeter.

McFarlane played in film palaces from 1919 into the early 1920s. He played in Alex Hyde

Alex Hyde

Alex Hyde was an American jazz bandleader and violinist.Hyde was born in Hamburg but his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was two. He founded his own dance band, the Romance of Rhythm Orchestra, and played with them locally in New York and throughout North America...

's band after this, recording with them in Germany

Germany

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 in 1924. The group dissolved in the middle of the decade and McFarlane remained in Germany, playing with Bernard Etté (1924-26) and Dajos Béla

Dajos Béla

Dajos Béla was a Russian fiddle-player and band-leader.-Career:Golzmann was born in Kiev, now part of the Ukraine, of a Russian father and Hungarian mother. He served as a soldier during World War I, after which he studied music in Moscow...

 (1925-32) and recording as a leader in 1926-27. He moved back to England and played with Jack Jackson

Jack Jackson (British radio)

Jack Jackson was a British trumpeter and bandleader who became a highly influential radio disc jockey....

 in 1933-34; after spending time in Argentina

Argentina

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 with Béla again (1935-37), he did a tour of Europe from 1937 to 1940. He then joined the BBC

BBC

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Dance Orchestra, where he played from 1940 to 1957.