The U.S. Army has more young musicians than anyone can shake a baton at. The best white swing band yet formed in an Army camp set out last week from Fort Dix, N.J. to go on a tour of other camps.
Organizer and leader of the band is Sergeant Herbert Bernfeld, who as Herbie Fields used to play tenor saxophone and clarinet in Raymond Scott's Quintet. Among the band's 14 other members. Tin Pan Alleymen all, are Private Morton Kahn, who led and pounded the piano in Gerry Morton's Society Band; Private Don Matteson, trombonist...
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