The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz by Jeffrey Magee (Hardcover, 2005)

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If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. He shows how Henderson, standing at the forefront of the New York jazz scene during the 1920s and '30s, assembled the era's best musicians, simultaneously preserving jazz's distinctiveness.