Peter J Levinson: 2 books
Trumpet Blues
The Life of Harry James
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
Swing is back in style, and with it a renewed interest in the Big Band Era. And few players dominated that era more than Harry James, whose soaring trumpet solos and romantic hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Now, Peter J. Levinson, who knew Harry James personally, has written a...
Tommy Dorsey
Livin' in a Great Big Way, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to--and went to war to. And no musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey, whose soaring trombone play and hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956) led a...