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Thirty Years with the Big Bands
Arthur Rollini
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Description for Thirty Years with the Big Bands
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 253.
Arthur Rollini describes his career as a tenor saxophonist in the big US jazz orchestras. In the 1920s he played in London with the Savoy Dance Orchestra and on his return to the USA he joined the nascent Benny Goodman Orchestra, before working in the bands of the Dorsey Brothers, Paul Whiteman and Ray McKinley. He thus tells an insider's story of the foremost white swing orchestras. Rollini's account of the early development of jazz in England and Europe and of the growth of the Goodman Orchestra will be of great use to jazz historians, as will his discussion of ... Read more
Arthur Rollini describes his career as a tenor saxophonist in the big US jazz orchestras. In the 1920s he played in London with the Savoy Dance Orchestra and on his return to the USA he joined the nascent Benny Goodman Orchestra, before working in the bands of the Dorsey Brothers, Paul Whiteman and Ray McKinley. He thus tells an insider's story of the foremost white swing orchestras. Rollini's account of the early development of jazz in England and Europe and of the growth of the Goodman Orchestra will be of great use to jazz historians, as will his discussion of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349094301
SKU
V9781349094301
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99-15
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