Swing Era New York By W. Royal Stokes (1994 ... recording sessions) and big bands (Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson). Candid shots feature Fats Waller greeting friends along a Harlem street ...

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They were essentially the first avant-garde jazz group that were willing to break the structures and time signatures of what we call the bebop era or the big band swing era. They were the first ...

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