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The Boswell Sisters: Shout, Sister, Shout (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 19, 07

In his book Jazz Singing (1990), Will Friedwald calls The Boswell Sisters "the greatest of all jazz vocal groups." Pr...

Boswell Sisters: Shuffle Off To Buffalo (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

“Shuffle Off To Buffalo” was one of three Busby Berkeley song-and-dance productions in the film 42nd Street, released...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Boswell Sisters posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 09

Boswell Sisters, vocal group. Connie (later Connee) Boswell (b. Kansas City, December 3, 1907, d. October 11, 1976, N...

Fitzgerald, Ella posted in Encyclopedia January 14, 08

To paraphrase the poet Robert Graves, Ella Fitzgerald was really very good, despite all the people who said she was...

Wiley, Lee (Lee Willey) posted in Encyclopedia December 17, 08

Lee Wiley’s move from girl band singer to nightclub chanteuse brought her into her own sound, which incorporates styl...

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