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The George Roumanis Big Band

Swing! Here and Now -- The Music of Harry Warren

By The George Roumanis Big Band

Label: Pinch Hit Records
Released: 2000

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 ...

The George Roumanis Big Band: Swing! Here and Now -- The Music of Harry Warren

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2000

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, ...