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America's Music Makers: Big Bands & Ballrooms 1912–2011
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Russell V. Longstreth March 9, 1939 – December 31, 2006)
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233:List of jazz arrangers
187:Stewart "Dirk" Fischer
16:American jazz musician
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115:, jazz trumpeter and
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368:The Kansas City Star
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105:John Hubbard Beecher
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109:Little John Beecher
41:Little John Beecher
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303:by John Behrens,
260:Nebraska History,
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