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The Big Band Almanac

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780306803451

Price: £28.99

ON SALE: 22nd March 1989

Genre: The Arts / Music

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With more than 500 pictures, and extensive entries on more than 350 orchestras, this complete coverage of black and white bands,from the almost-forgotten Basie, Ellington, Miller, Shaw, and Dorsey,will prompt memories and establish important facts about a glorious era of jazz and popular music. Forewords by Les Brown and Harry James and an index with more than 6,000 names bracket a book that should be part of any music library.