She's a jazz violinist with her own swing band and is known as a champion of contemporary American music.

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He got his musical start in 1953 playing lead guitar in a country-and-western swing band and became a full-time professional musician in the 1960s.

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Swing-band leader Tommy Dorsey, who gave Sinatra his start, leads the eighth rendition with a meandering, almost oriental, tempo, each phrasing revealing yet another facet of his orchestra.

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It's like walking into a scene from Goodfellas - the crowd seated at candlelit tables, suited-up waiting staff distributing Old Fashioneds, the band on stage playing whipsmart swing and jazz.

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The sisters specialised in swing and played with some of the top band leaders of the era, including Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey.

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This far in, it's obvious what to expect: pickin'-party songs, bar-band basics enlivened by loose, easygoing solos that traverse Western swing and Stardust-era Willie Nelson.

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