The 1940s
Big Band Scene

In three columns this Yank Magazine correspondent summed-up all the various events on the 1945 Big Band landscape:

“The leading big bands now are Woody Herman’s, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton’s. Benny Goodman, who broke up his own band for the umpteenth time, is a featured performer in Billy Rose’s super revue, ‘The Seven Lively Arts’, but the maestro is said to be thinking of turning over his Rose job to Raymond Scott and making another stab at the band business.”

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