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Bebop, swing and all that jazz

15 June 2024

9:00 AM

15 June 2024

9:00 AM

A Century of Big Bands: Fifty of the Best Michael Gilchrist

Connor Court, pp.226, $29.95

I can still remember the first time I heard big band jazz. I was in my twenties (too long ago!) and a friend was driving us to the beach. He had the radio on – it must have been the ABC – and out came Perry Como singing ‘I wonder who’s kissing her now’ with the Ted Weems Orchestra in 1947.

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