HAZZARD, ISAAC

HAZZARD, ISAAC. Society dance-band leader (1804 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; c1864 in Philadelphia). Nothing is known of his early life. By the 1830s he had developed a dance orchestra of about twenty men, which was in great demand to play for Philadelphia's dancing schools, military parades, and fancy dress balls and assemblies of the elite. Like his contemporary Frank Johnson, Hazzard imported new music from Europe in order to provide his clientele with the latest successes, according to the...