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Lots of Music from The History of Swing

Master Big Band Historian Harvey Sheldon covers it all and then some.

This is the most informative and intensly thought provoking piece ever done on the Big Bands. Harvey Sheldon Tells it All! An amazing 2 hour production with the stories & music to back it up. Click below to listen.

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Book Title - Encyclopedia of the History of the Swing Era: Biographies of Big Swing Band Arrangers and Sidemen

Genre - Biographies & History, 806 pages

Author - Harvey Sheldon

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