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Ann Arbor's big band

The Paul Keller Orchestra at eighteen

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 1/1/2007

A long time ago, jazz big bands traveled throughout the land; many of their sidemen were as notorious as movie stars, and the leaders were treated as nobility. The days of peripatetic musical Dukes and Counts are over, and economy of size rules the land. But a few good big bands can still be found in a few cities, mostly on Monday nights, when most clubs are

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