Big bandleader Glenn Miller disappeared in 1944He was never found and was only 40 years oldMiller was last seen on a plane ...

Al Porcino was an American jazz trumpeter. Porcino began playing professionally in 1943, playing in many big bands of the 1940s and 1950s, including those of Georgie Auld, Louis Prima, Jerry Wald, ...

In the 1940s, when most women singers adorned big bands as stage attractions rather than legitimate members of jazz ensembles, Sarah Vaughan, along with her predecessor Ella Fitzgerald, helped elevate ...