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Interviews

Buried in a dusty archive, some of them for over forty years, these interviews with famous jazz musicians constitute an invaluable insight into the jazz world.

Created, transcribed, and now brought to life again by the journalist and jazz historian
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Profiles

Biographies of famous jazz musicians, many of them no longer with us.

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Concise profiles of many British and European big bands, drawn on the experience of the man who played with them.

Ron's Pages

Ron Simmonds' headlong career in some of the great big bands.

Fascinating - you won't want to stop until you've read it all!

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Big Band lead trumpet playing

Ron Simmonds
Swing for Beginners
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Alan Dean
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Clark Terry

Porgy & Bess


Pyldriver

Sydney All Star Big Band


STAN KENTON
The Kenton Story

BUDDY RICH
Drummin' Man



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A
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DUKE
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Looks back—and forward
On sacred music
Ellingtonians talking
The first one hundred years
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ARVELL SHAW
On tour with Louis Armstrong
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Al Cohn and Zoot Sims
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Joe Morello, Phil Seamen, Kenny Clare, Wally Thompson and Jackie Dougan







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