Jazz in Britain has a glorious and robust past. From the 1920s and '30s up until World War II in 1939, jazz in the U.K. was largely "sweet" in dance-band style. Bands were formal and highly accomplished. Remember, Cherokee was by Ray Noble, the English bandleader, composer and arranger who recorded it first in 1938. He also wrote The Touch of Your Lips,…
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