Fletcher Henderson: Scientist of Swing
Born this day, bandleader, arranger, accompanist and composer Fletcher Henderson (James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, 1897-1952), one of the key inventors of the musical style known as Swing. The son of a small-town Georgia school principal, Henderson was drilled relentlessly in the fundamentals of music as a child, though he went on to study chemistry and […]
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