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Babe Russin
Babe Russin
American musician
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Metronome All-Stars
Metronome All-Stars
band that plays jazz
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Al Klink
Al Klink
American musician
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Allan Reuss
Allan Reuss
American jazz guitarist
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Carmen Mastren
Carmen Mastren
American musician
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Alvin Stoller
Alvin Stoller
American musician
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Sonny Russo
Sonny Russo
American jazz trombonist
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Bunny Berigan
Bunny Berigan
American musician
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Urbie Green
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
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Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa
drummer, composer, bandleader
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Buddy DeFranco
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
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Murray McEachern
Murray McEachern
Canadian musician
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Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
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Bob Eberly
Bob Eberly
American singer, vocalist
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Derek Smith
Derek Smith
British musician
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Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen
American jazz trumpeter (born 1927)
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Irving Mills
Irving Mills
American music publisher, singer, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter
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Red Nichols
Red Nichols
American jazz musician
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Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
American big band leader and musician
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Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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zeke Zarchy
zeke Zarchy
American jazz trumpeter
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Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller
American big band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (1904-1944)
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Jimmy Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey
American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of Tommy Dorsey
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Fud Livingston
Fud Livingston
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, and composer
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George Masso
George Masso
American musician
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Ziggy Elman
Ziggy Elman
American musician
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Nathaniel Shilkret
Nathaniel Shilkret
American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director
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James Chirillo
James Chirillo
Jazz guitar
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Peanuts Hucko
Peanuts Hucko
American jazz musician
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Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
US big band led by Glenn Miller (1937-1942)
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Dick Hyman
Dick Hyman
American jazz pianist and composer
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Bernie Privin
Bernie Privin
American musician
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Tony Mottola
Tony Mottola
guitarist (1918-2004)
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Ernie Caceres
Ernie Caceres
American musician
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Boomie Richman
Boomie Richman
American musician
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Manny Klein
Manny Klein
American musician
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Miff Mole
Miff Mole
American jazz musician
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Johnny Guarnieri
Johnny Guarnieri
American musician
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Harry Carney
Harry Carney
American jazz musician
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Tex Beneke
Tex Beneke
American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader
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Salvatore Camarata
Salvatore Camarata
American composer, arranger, trumpeter, and record producer
Enoch Light
American musician

Enoch Light

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Enoch Henry Light (18 August 1907, in Canton, Ohio – 31 July 1978, in New York City) was an American classically trained violinist, danceband leader, and recording engineer. As the leader of various dance bands that recorded as early as March 1927 and continuing through at least 1940, Light and his band primarily worked in various hotels in New York. For a time in 1928 he also led a band in Paris. In the 1930s Light also studied conducting with the French conductor Maurice Frigara in Paris.

Throughout the 1930s, Light and his outfits were steadily employed in the generally more upscale hotel restaurants and ballrooms in New York that catered to providing polite ambiance for dining and functional dance music of current popular songs rather than out-and-out jazz.

At some point his band was tagged "The Light Brigade" and they often broadcast over radio live from the Hotel Taft in New York where they had a long residency. Through 1940, Light and his band recorded for various labels including Brunswick, ARC, Vocalion and Bluebird. Later on, as A&R (Artists and Repertoire) chief and vice-president of Grand Award Records, he founded his own label, Command Records, in 1959. Light's name was prominent on many albums both as musician and producer.