Loss started band leading in the early 1930s, working at the Astoria Ballroom and soon breaking into variety at the Kit-Cat Club.

In 1934, he topped the bill at the Holborn Empire but in the same year moved back to the Astoria Ballroom where he led a twelve piece band.

[6] Loss' daughter Jennifer is chair of the Jewish Music Institute in London and was married to the British car designer Robert Jankel.

[7] The Joe Loss Orchestra was one of the most successful acts of the big band era in the 1940s, with hits including "In the Mood".

In 1989, Joe Loss became too ill to travel and in 1990 he entrusted the leadership to his longest serving band member, trombonist and player-manager of many decades, Sam Watmough, and Miller.

Joe Loss also features regularly on the Manx Radio programme Sweet & Swing, presented by Howard Caine.