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Western Swingtime Music: A Cool Breeze in the American Desert

Jerry Zolten, Sing Out!, June 1974

IN THE GOLDEN days of big band swing, while Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington were sizzling in the cities, a back-country form of big band swing was cooling down the deserts of the American Southwest.

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