On the heels of its popular jazz masterpiece reissue program, Columbia Records is celebrating the swinging big band music that dominated American airwaves in the 1930s and '40s.
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It has come out with "Best of the Big Bands," eight digitally remastered volumes of swing classics by Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Glenn Gray, Les Brown, Cab Calloway, Sammy Kaye, and Les and Larry Elgart.A second release in May will include Will Bradley and Ray McKinley, Doris Day with Les Brown, Eddie Duchin, Harry James, Kay Kyser, Lester Lanin, Artie Shaw and Claude Thornhill.