Swingtime in Tottenham

instance, or Charlie Barnet, or Woody Herman, or Count Basie, or Duke Ellington,
or either of the Dorsey brothers, or Chick Webb, or Jimmy Lunceford. Probably
not Artie Shaw, who had by now, it seemed to me, retired from the ardours of
bandleading at least ten times. Rivalry between the big bands was intense, a
situation which while it was good for business and gave the cloth-eared critics
something to write about, led inevitably to the ultimate lunacy of polls and awards
. It hardly ...