This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents “Fletcher Henderson and Don Redman: The Birth of the Big Band Reed Section" with arrangements adapted by the Jim Cullum Jazz Band’s clarinetist Ron Hockett from the ...

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 ...

He was born in 1909 and was famously kicked out of Fletcher Henderson’s band in the early thirties for not sounding enough like Coleman Hawkins, his predecessor in the tenor-sax chair. Lester Young, ...

CUTHBERT, GA (WALB) - A group of folks in Randolph County are working to restore and old gem, the home of jazz legend Fletcher Henderson. The popular band leader, composer and pianist's home became a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Betty Carter, guitarist Wes Montgomery, drummer Elvin Jones and bandleader Fletcher Henderson have been voted into Jazz at Lincoln Center’s (JALC) Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame.

Fletcher Henderson, jazz-band leader, will take time off from his current engagement at Boston's Tic-Toc to appear over. Harvard's Crimson Network this evening at 8 o'clock. Henderson, with a ...

Fletcher Henderson's new orchestra, a high-ranking sweet-hot-swing band, will feature the Annual Adams House Winter Dance, which will be held on Friday, February 14, from 9:30 till 2:30 o'clock. Among ...

Fletcher and Horace Henderson Music and Photographs / Series 1: Horace and Fletcher Henderson Music / 1.1: Horace's Band Books / Group 6 Unidentified Band Books / Extra Parts A-F Collection items ...

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 ...