(Book). This ultimate guide to big bands includes hundreds of entries spanning the history of this American musical style. Each entry contains the band name, it

In this book you will find an astounding 400 biographies that highlight the history and personnel of the great bands. It is organized into four sections: “The

During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's

Where did big bands and swing music go? They didn't leave. . . but many Americans actually believe they disappeared along with ballrooms, jukeboxes, bobby sox a

The marvelous words and music of the swing era with the bands and vocalists that made them famous.