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The Big Bands, Fourth Edition by George T. Simon is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Big Bands, Fourth Edition about?
xvii, 614 pages : 25 cm A history of the American Big Bands as told through the perspective of the author's contemporary participation. This new edition includes more photographs, follow-up interviews, and a discography of 200 big band theme songs Includes discography (pages 567-581) and index The big bands -- then. The scene ; The leaders ; The public ; The musicians ; The rise, the glory and the decline ; The vocalists ; The arrangers ; The businessmen ; Recordings ; Radio ; Movies ; The press -- Inside the big bands. Charlie Barnet ; Count Basie ; Bunny Berigan ; Will Bradley ; Les Brown ; Bobby Byrne ; Cab Calloway ; Frankie Carle ; Benny Carter ; Casa Loma ; Bob Chester ; Larry Clinton ; Bob Crosby ; Xavier Cugat ; The Dorsey brothers ; Jimmy Dorsey ; Tommy Dorsey ; Eddy Duchin ; Sonny Dunham ; Billy Eckstine ; Duke Ellington ; Shep Fields ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Benny Goodman ; George Hall ; Mal Hallett ; Lionel Hampton ; Horace Heidt ; Fletcher Henderson ; Woody Herman ; Earl Hines ; Hudson-DeLange ; Ina Ray Hutton ; Harry James ; Isham Jones ; Dick Jurgens ; Sammy Kaye ; Hal Kemp ; Stan Kenton ; Wayne King ; Andy Kirk ; Gene Krupa ; Kay Kyser ; Elliot Lawrence ; Guy Lombardo ;
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- Author
- George T. Simon
- Publisher
- New York: Schirmer Books ; London: Collier Macmillan
- Published
- 1981
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780028724300
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (67 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14