Jazz Articles about George Roumanis

The George Roumanis Big Band: Swing! Here and Now

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2000

It was a pleasant surprise to learn that Swing! Here and Now is devoted exclusively to the music of the great Harry Warren — and we don’t use the word “great” casually — one of the most talented yet sadly neglected songwriters of Hollywood’s Golden Age of musical films. How good was he? Well, Warren won three Academy Awards (for “Lullaby of Broadway,” 1935; “You’ll Never Know,” 1943; “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe,” 1946) and was nominated ...