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Thirty Years with the Big Bands

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  • © 1987

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  1. Arthur Rollini
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. A childhood in Larchmont

    • Arthur Rollini
    Pages 1-12

  3. With Fred Elizalde in Europe

    • Arthur Rollini
    Pages 13-22

  4. The California Ramblers, Bert Lown, Paul Whiteman and George Olsen

    • Arthur Rollini
    Pages 23-33

  5. Joining Benny Goodman

    • Arthur Rollini
    Pages 34-45

  6. “Let’s Dance”

    • Arthur Rollini
    Pages 46-72

  7. No pressure at all

    • Arthur Rollini
    Pages 73-89

  8. The end of my thirty years

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    Pages 90-114

  9. Epilogue

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    Pages 115-125

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 127-134
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Arthur Rollini describes his career as a tenor saxophonist in the big US jazz orchestras. In the 1920s he played in London with the Savoy Dance Orchestra and on his return to the USA he joined the nascent Benny Goodman Orchestra, before working in the bands of the Dorsey Brothers, Paul Whiteman and Ray McKinley. He thus tells an insider's story of the foremost white swing orchestras. Rollini's account of the early development of jazz in England and Europe and of the growth of the Goodman Orchestra will be of great use to jazz historians, as will his discussion of his brother Adrian's career. The book contains a number of rare photographs.

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