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It’s Got That Swing
I can’t remember when I first started to love swing music. My grandfather sang in a swing band, and although I wasn’t born in time to watch him in action, I was always fond of the crackled recordings that we had on cassette tape. I suppose it was one of my trips to London from the remote countryside that really introduced me to the glamour and opulence of that whole era: the music, the fashion,...Posted on May 24th, 2011 by Bryony Cooper
