If we turned on our big, tube-powered radio in 1940, when it warmed up, we would hear music from Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmy Dorsey and the like. Big bands, swing music and torch singers. Well ...
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the very dance-oriented swinging music of the Big Bands was the most popular music around. Never had jazz been more central to mass culture. Just over the horizon ...
This column is sponsored by Arlington Arts/Arlington Cultural Affairs, a division of Arlington Economic Development. South Arlington’s neighborhoods were undoubtedly fertile ground for women musicians ...
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