Paul Whiteman's Orchestra was the most popular band of the 1920s. They are also the most controversial to Jazz historians because Whiteman billed himself as "The King Of Jazz". The Paul Whiteman ...
Louis Armstrong has been rightly hailed as the most important figure in early jazz for almost as long as Paul Whiteman, once its biggest star, has been denied his due. Under the racially apologist ...
On Aug. 28, 1939, a special Lincoln Zephyr automobile was dispatched from Rochester to Minneapolis to fetch a king. When the car returned to Rochester and pulled to a stop in front of the Chateau ...