The World of Big Bands: The Sweet and Swinging Years
- ISBN-10
- 0668041684
- ISBN-13
- 9780668041683
- Category
- Music / Genres & Styles / Big Band & Swing
- Pages
- 130
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977
- Publisher
- Arco Publishing Company
- Author
- Arthur Jackson
Description
"The World of the Big Bands presents for the first time the complete story of the big bands which have played such an important part in the evolution of modern music. Famous bands with their individual styles: swing, jazz, dance music, Hawaiian and comedy; and their soloists, arrangers and singers are nostalgically recalled with authority and from the author's personal experience of the era." --
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