This splendid work captures King Crazy Oliver Steck during a vaudeville performance of the famous “Happy Clown Serenade” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in 1916. King Steck advises that he practices this routine daily for its benefits to concentration, balance, and motor control. The Eleanor H. Millbea estate informs Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies that this figurine of King Crazy Oliver Steck was Ms. Millbea’s personal favorite.

This delightful interpretation of Professor Joseph Cordi conducting the London Symphony in 1920 was the last sculpted work of Hans Olegard. In it, one sees the radiant confidence of Professor Cordi before his triumphant critically acclaimed presentation of Puccini’s La Boheme.

Lord Mondegreen was very impressed by the perceptiveness and insight of Hans Olegard during Lord Mondegreen’s performance with the Babies in a New Orleans street parade in 1905. It is said that the sculptor retained the memory of Lord Mondegreen’s performance for over twenty five years before creating his first sketch of this legendary musician. Learn more about Lord Mondegreen at the website Austin Traditional Jazz Society

Hans Olegard captured a joyous Professor Cordi during the Babies 1918 concert of “Ragtime and Cakewalk Favorites” in Savannah, Georgia. In the “Cakewalk Parade” uniform commonly used by the Babies during this period, one can see the intricate woven patterns created for the Babies by the Fourth Ward Fabric Maidens of New Orleans, who are also the Queen of England’s preferred troupe of seamstresses.

In this elegant figurine, Hans Olegard presents the complex combination of charisma, charm, and wit that abounds in the international playboy and jewel thief, Stanley Steamer Smith, a regular guest Baby. This sculpture, which is rich with Stanley’s natural masculinity, has been censored from public view for several decades due to its immediate and irrevocable influence over women that gazed upon it. It is said that once a woman viewed the figurine in person, she developed the so-called “Steamer” complex. The Steamer complex, which only affects females, has multiple symptoms that include an elevated heart rate, elevated body temperature, elevated breathing rate, compulsive smiling, and the loss of rational thought process. Some women experience this complex upon only hearing Mr. Smith play music. Stanley is a world renown clarinetist and vocalist and the Babies are proud to have him as their friend. Learn more about this amazing musician at the website Stanley Smith Music