Editing Ben Pollack (section)

===Breakup and reformation===
The band broke up in 1935.<ref name="Rust" /> Many of its members soon formed a group led by [[Bob Crosby]], brother of [[Bing Crosby]].<ref name="LarkinJazz"/><ref name="Rust" />

Pollack formed a new band with [[Harry James]] and [[Irving Fazola]].<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> With James he wrote the hit "Peckin'". In the early 1940s, he organized a band led by comedian [[Chico Marx]]. He started [[Jewel Records (Hollywood record label)|Jewel Records]], opened restaurants in Hollywood and Palm Springs, appeared as himself in the movie ''[[The Benny Goodman Story]]'', and made a cameo in ''[[The Glenn Miller Story]]''.<ref name="Rust" />

Pollack's bands from the 1920s through the 1940s included [[Benny Goodman]], [[Bud Freeman]], [[Dick Cathcart]], [[Eddie Miller (jazz saxophonist)|Eddie Miller]], [[Frank Teschemacher]], [[Freddie Slack]], [[Glenn Miller]], [[Charlie Spivak]],  [[Harry James]], [[Irving Fazola]], [[Jack Teagarden]], [[Jimmy McPartland]], [[Joe Marsala]], [[Matty Matlock]], [[Muggsy Spanier]], and [[Yank Lawson]].<ref name="Eder" />