One of the most popular bandleaders of the wartime era, Harry James is best remembered today for his colorful trumpet playing and as the husband of pin-up girl Betty Grable. Born in a run-down hotel ...

Clark Terry said he could do it all. That’s a couple of pretty fair trumpet players talking about another. About Louis Armstrong? No. His name was Harry James and his fascinating and somewhat tragic ...

Free performances were scattered all around the grounds. During Labor Day weekend, the biggest attraction was the Harry James big band on the Floating Stage. James was a top name in swing music ...

Louise Tobin, a big-band singer of the 1930s and ’40s who urged her then-husband, trumpet player and orchestra leader Harry James, to hire a promising young man she heard on the radio ...

Already they had picked a new favorite: the six-foot-one, wavy-haired son of a circus bandleader and circus bareback rider, Trumpeter Harry James. Already the “modern Gabriel” and his band had ...

1983 - Trumpeter Harry James dies of cancer at the age of 67. By Billboard Staff 2004 – Syreeta Wright, best known for her duet with Billy Preston on “With You I’m Born Again,” dies after ...

Award-Winning Periodontist Adds to Brass Collection of Celebrated Trumpeters NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Peter Rosenstein, owner of the NYPOIA, a periodontal practice, an award ...