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Well-versed in classical piano, the gifted Fletcher Henderson established the beginnings of swing music and the BIG BAND SOUNDS with the 1936 creation of "Fletcher Henderson's Black Swan Jazz Masters." He was soon to incorporate the sounds of Harlem, New Orleans and an unknown trumpeter, Louis Armstrong, by using whole sections of his band to swing like soloists. Duke Ellington and other bands soon caught on to the style. By 1934, the Dorsey Brothers introduced a bouncier sound in their swinging big band. Simultaneously, Benny Goodman, in conjunction with Fletcher Henderson arrangements, perfected even greater sounds and style. Thus, at a period when Americans needed distraction and comfort from the plague of the Great Depression, relief was found with the evolution of BIG BAND SOUNDS.

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Track List:
1. Maniac's Ball (Casa Loma Version)
2. Sometimes I'm Happy (Benny Goodman Version)
3. Dance of the Lame Duck (Casa Loma Version)
4. Walk, Jennie, Walk (Benny Goodman Version)
5. Blue Skies (Benny Goodman Version)
6. Mad House (Earl Hines Version)
7. Gin Mill Blues (Bob Crosby Version)
8. It's Been So Long (Benny Goodman Version)
9. Toy Trumpet (Raymond Scott Version)
10. I'm Gettin' Sentimental over You (Tommy Dorsey Version)
11. Royal Garden Blues (Bob Crosby Version)
12. Prisoner's Song (Bunny Berigan Version)
13. Annie Laurie (Jimmie Lunceford Version)
14. Every Tub (Count Basie Version)
15. Blue and Sentimental (Count Basie Version)
16. Sing, Sing, Sing: Part I (Benny Goodman Version)
17. Sing, Sing, Sing: Part II (Benny Goodman Version)
18. South Rampart Street Parade (Bob Crosby Version)
19. Undecided (John Kirby Version)
20. What's New (Bob Crosby Version)
21. In an Eighteenth Century Drawing Room (Raymond Scott Version)
22. Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise (Artie Shaw Version)

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