Blue Flame: Woody Herman's Life in Music - Robert C. Kriebel - Google Books

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"All we do is try to create some kind of mood, and hopesomebody digs it" was how the likeable and talented jazzman Woody Herman(1913-87) explained his success. For an incredible fifty years and four months,Herman led a variety of always changing, always…