Listen to a collection of Big Band Reminiscences |
Former Commodores’ Orchestra leader Stan Wiggins recounts a time when members of the band went on a train ride with the Duke Ellington band |
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Stan Wiggins recalls the first time he saw Maynard Ferguson perform |
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Stan Wiggins laughs about a Belleville, Ontario appearance when Tommy Dorsey played trumpet! |
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Former RCAF Streamliners’ saxman Phil Sparling recalls Artie Shaw at his quirky best |
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Sparling describes a night when the Streamliners played stand-in for Glenn Miller in wartime London |
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Former Commodores’ trombonist and music head at Toronto’s Malvern Collegiate, George McRae, about meeting Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington band legend Harry Carney |
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George McRae on playing trombone in the Guy Lombardo Orchestra
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Former Kingston, Ontario saxman Ron Gilbertson could hardly believe his ears when he heard Count Basie’s band for the first time in Scotland |
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A CJBQ radio broadcast in 1947 from the Club Commodore in Belleville, Ontario.....featuring the Commodores’ Orchestra. The announcer is Jack Devine |
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