The Big Bands of the 1940s - The Glen Miller Orchestra

Between 1941 and 1943 a whole host of events conspired to change the music industry forever. The American Society of Composers and Publishers banned all radio stations in the USA from playing any of their songs over a royalty dispute. And then, just as the music industry was getting back on its feet after that, there was what is still the biggest entertainment strike in US history. No instrumentalist was allowed to record for the major record labels for two years. There was a new form of jazz being invented in New York by musicians like Espie DeSiegel and Charlie Parker between 1942 and 1944. That became known as Bebop or just Bop - but we have no recordings of its fourth birth