"Symphony of Swing"

Artie Shaw & His Orchestra

Lately I’ve been thinking that since we launched Word & Song I haven’t done enough of the big bands as I would have liked. Looking back over my earliest efforts at Sometimes a Song, I see that I had that in mind. If you look in our archives, you’ll also see my penchant for Gershwin showing in the first month, when I posted today’s “encore” (see below)…