All American Bandleaders was a celebrity / fan magazine about 1940's bands and vocalists. I found one of these magazines from April 1942 that I had packed away in a closet. Each page was a little feature or story on a different bandleader. Since the magazine was 36 pages with hardly any advertisements I thought it would be fun to go through from the beginning to the end and play as many of the bandleaders as I could find. This week features bandleaders from pages 1 - 19 and we will wind up the rest next week. It is a big band potpourri from All American Bandleaders magazine this week on Big Band Bash.
You can see a few of the covers at:
https://magazineart.org/main.php/v/musicandtheater/bandleaders/
This is the issue we'll be playing from:
I submitted the cover to magazineart and they were nice enough to post it on their website.
I scanned all the pages of the magazine and created a pdf of it. Luckily the pages were 8.5 by 11 so I was able to scan it unlike Metronome and Downbeat magazines of that era.
If you would like to view, it you can download it at this location:
http://www.fgmiller.com/bbb/All-American Bandleaders April 1942.pdf
