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Title: Great music
Review: This was another excellent band that didn't get started early enough to be one of the giants of the Big Band Era. And just when it did start to come on, so did World War Two. So Claude went to play with Artie Shaw in the Pacific, but then got sidelined by accepting an offer to play at an officer's club for the duration. So start up again after the war he did and had another terrific, even an avant-garde orchestra that mixed classical with be-bop. No other band sounded like this one. But again it was short-lived because of Claude's health. Then in 1965 Claude got an orchestra together again and was scheduled to open in Atlantic City, but died the night before. Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Hal Kemp, all died too young. Claude Thornhill's name is among them. This CD features the pre-war band and contains some of the most beautiful romantic music ever recorded.
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