| Contents |
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 ; Johnny Long ; Jimmie Lunceford ; Freddy Martin ; Hal McIntyre ; Ray McKinley ; Glenn Miller ; Vaughn Monroe ; Russ Morgan ; Ozzie Nelson ; Red Nichols ; Ray Noble ; Red Norvo ; Tony Pastor ; Teddy Powell ; Boyd Raeburn ; Alvino Rey ; Buddy Rich ; Jan Savitt ; Raymond Scott ; Artie Shaw ; Charlie Spivak ; Jack Teagarden ; Claude Thornhill ; Chick Webb ; Ted Weems ; Lawrence Welk ; Paul Whiteman -- Inside more of the big bands. The arranging leaders ; The horn-playing leaders ; The reed-playing leaders ; The piano-playing leaders ; The violin-playing leaders ; The singing leaders ; The Mickey-Mouse bands ; The veterans ; And still more bands -- Big bandleaders revisited. Count Basie ; Benny Goodman ; Woody Herman ; Harry James ; Stan Kenton ; Guy Lombardo ; Artie Shaw -- The big bands -- now -- A selective big bands discography -- The big bands' theme songs. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Local note | Little-309473--305131038188+ |
| Bibliography note | Includes discography (pages 567-581) and index. |
| LCCN | 81051633 |
| ISBN | 0028724208 |
| ISBN | 0028724305 (pbk.) |
