"Bongo-Bongo-Bongo I don't wanna leave the Congo"...you seemed to hear that novel phrase just about everywhere during the 1947 holiday season. Danny ...
Early Autumn (Burns) by Woody Herman & his Orchestra (CD audio source) This basic melody line was first heard during the final 60 seconds of Ralph Burns' ...
Renowned jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote of Woody Herman's band from this period: "In 1943-1944 the band took on a modernist tinge and became the first ...