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Swing Out: Great Negro Dance Bands [Paperback]

Gene Fernett (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1993

From the earliest "riverboat jazz" to Dizzy Gillespie's "Hep-Sations of 1945", "Swing Out" is the story of the great black dance bands who dazzled America for over 40 years. Included are stories of the greats: how Fletcher Henderson would become so hypnotised by the sound of his band that he would quit playing piano and just listen; how "Bubber" Miley of the Duke Ellington Orchestra invented the "growl technique"; how Noble Sissle became the darling of the international set; how John Hammond brought Count Basie to New York; how Erskine Hawkins developed a short musical break into the hit "Tuxedo Junction"; how Jimmie Lunceford created his orchestra from his high school students; and scores of other inside stories about such notables as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway and Earl Hines.

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Product Details

Paperback: 174 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Pr (April 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0306805014
ISBN-13: 978-0306805011
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,854,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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