The title of “The King Of Jazz” which Whiteman was billed as seems somewhat politically incorrect these days, but in the 1920s he dominated the scene and hired the best White hot musicians Whiteman and his Orchestra were the most popular band of the 1920s and represented the apex of jazz to the general public. Over the years, critics and some musicians , have not had kind words to say about the band and have tended to represent Whiteman as a bad influence on the music in his attempts to “Make a lady out of Jazz”.