The songs of the late English bandleader and composer, Ray Noble, are very much of the type for which many take a historical look backwards in saying, "They don't write songs like that -anymore." And ...

“Miss Agnes Howard Kemp is visiting friends in Washington. Rev. T.F. Hennessy of Kentucky, is visiting relatives in Howard County. Mr. Irving Brown of Baltimore spent Sunday with Miss Leila Stall of ...

Five years ago a blond young Briton ambled down London’s Charing Cross Road, turned into Denmark Street (equivalent of Manhattan’s Tin-Pan Alley), sought out a publisher who might be sympathetic. The ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The last thing the Brighton-born bandleader Ray Noble had in mind when he wrote “Cherokee” in 1938 was to provide a ...

For more than a decade, the debonair bandleader and singer Michael Arenella and his eleven-piece Dreamland Orchestra have been drawing crowds with performances of dance music from the ...

Earle Hagen played trombone with the celebrated Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman big bands, and while with the Ray Noble Orchestra, composed one of the greatest standards of them all, "Harlem Nocturne." ...