"[2] A visiting carnival's bandleader took sick when Senter was twelve, and the youth was hired to lead the band in replacement.
[1] Upon hearing recordings of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band he decided he wanted to become a professional musician.
[2] He joined a 1927 touring theater production of "S. S. Syncopation" with a band christened the Riviera Jazz Jesters instead of Senterpedes.
[8] In the 1930s he directed the orchestra at Detroit's Colonial Theatre and headlined at variety Vaudeville shows, sometimes serving as master of ceremonies.
[3] A 1926 newspaper review called his theater performance "steaming music of the approved variety," noting his "wicked variations" on "St. Louis Blues".
[14] Billboard reviewed a 1942 show by Senter as a mixture of entertainment and music that had "..the crowd stomping..." in an audience consisting of a high proportion of juveniles.
[17][18][19][20] The clarinet playing that made him internationally famous was, according to Brian Rust, clowning, and diminished his reputational posterity among jazz aficionados.
[3] Senter appears as a sideman on recordings by The California Ramblers, Jelly Roll Morton, and Jimmie Rodgers.