Igor Stravinsky, like 1,000,000 other U.S. record buyers, liked Woody Herman’s scat-and-screech-filled Caldonia (“What makes your big head so hard?”). Stravinsky liked it so well that he wanted to ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Woody Herman's birthday today! After early experience in Chicago with the bands led by Tom Gerun and Harry Sosnik, Woody Herman toured with Gus Arnheim. In 1934, he ...

"Chubby" Jackson, 84, the full-figured jazz bassist best known for a boundless energy that powered the Woody Herman band's music and morale during a key period of its development, died Oct. 2 at a ...

Jack Siefert Woody Herman Collection, 1913-1990, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Collection is open for research but a portion of the collection is stored off-site and special ...

Jazzed Media, a jazz record label and film production company, has started production of a documentary film on big band jazz legend Woody Herman titled Blue Flame. This is the fourth jazz documentary ...

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