The Big Broadcast, Volume 5: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s Dance Band Ed combines nimble-fingered virtuosity with

Ed combines nimble-fingered virtuosity with a keen ear for harmony to create lush

Hodges has served as pianist and singer with Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orchestra and the Peter Mintun Orchestra and currently enjoys a career as silent film accompanist in his native California and at film festivals around the world

Even with the passage of many decades

The Clines band

" -- John Mason Brown

The Big Broadcast, Volume 5: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s Dance Band Ed combines nimble-fingered virtuosity withThe fifth in Rivermont's popular Big Broadcast series, this CD features a variety of excellent jazz, dance band, and vocal recordings of the 1920s and 1930s selected by Rich Conaty, who for more than forty years was host of the vintage music radio program The Big Broadcast over WFUV FM in New York City. Many of these rare selections are making their first appearance on compact disc, and several are previously unreleased in any format. Conaty provides