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Thirty Years with the Big Bands / by Arthur Rollini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rollini, Arthur, 1912-1993, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music.
- Local Subjects:
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition 1987.
- Contained In:
- Springer Nature eBook
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1987.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- 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 his brother Adrian's career. The book contains a number of rare photographs.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9781349094288
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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