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The George Roumanis Big Band: Swing! Here and Now -- The Music of Harry Warren
by Jack Bowers
Listening to the George Roumanis Big Band as it reinvigorates these spellbinding pages from the Great American Song Book, it’s hard to believe that their author has faded into an undeserved obscurity and is rarely given the sort of praise showered on Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Rodgers and other icons of Tin Pan Alley. Yet Harry Warren, the dean of Hollywood film composers, wrote every one of these memorable songs and many more, and during the years 1935–50 had no less ...
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