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The Ben Grisafi Big Band: Talk of the Town / But Beautiful / Swing, Sweet & Sentimental
by Jack Bowers
In Juke Box Saturday Night, his book that embodies “memories of the Big Band Era and beyond,” author Richard Grudens includes chapters on bandleaders Artie Shaw, Les Brown, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Red Norvo, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Harry James — and Ben Grisafi. Ben who? That’s Ben G–r–i–s–a–f–i, who, at an age when most men have swapped their neckties and briefcases for pipe and slippers, leads a talented and reasonably successful big band in Long Island, New ...
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