This book first came out in hardback in 2005, but the intervening years have done nothing to diminish its status as the volume to turn to for anyone with an interest in bandleader/pianist Fletcher ...

Fletcher Henderson and saxophonist Don Redman invented a mechanism for ensemble playing that fueled the initial swing craze. Henderson's... Fletcher Henderson: 'Ken Burns Jazz: Fletcher Henderson' ...

The Allen Family of New Jersey has donated their father, Walter C. Allen's, complete library of materials to the Fletcher Henderson Museum. Walter C. Allen, the foremost authority on the career of ...

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Out of the jazz tradition -- A new Negro from the old South -- The "Paul Whiteman of the race" -- Inside the strain : the advent of Don Redman -- A New Orleans trumpeter in a New York band -- A ...