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Ramblin': The Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller and the World War II years
May 4—The Armed Forces Day celebration this Friday and Saturday got me to thinking about how our nation's military has sometimes been sang about in popular song. Of course World War II saw a ...
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University of Colorado Boulder donor funds archivist to catalog and preserve 1,400 boxes of jazz memorabilia
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CU Boulder to begin exploring 1,400 boxes of the Glenn Miller archive
Apr. 29—The University of Colorado Boulder announced it will begin unlocking the Glenn Miller archive — a collection of about 1,400 boxes — after receiving donor support for the archival project ...
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Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America with their music—and were financially exploited because of their race
Ellington gave breakthrough performances in three Paramount films in the 1930s, but was paid just half of what white bandleader Guy Lombardo got in the same era for a single Paramount picture ...
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Southport Sound performs free big band show May 8
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