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Jazz Pianist Keeper Of Mom's Legacy As Little Miss Angie Of 1930s All-Girl Band by Michael Hamad

Toward the end of the Jazz Age, the music world ushered in a new phenomenon: the all-girl band. Connecticut's contribution was the Novelty Syncopators, a New Britain-based group formed in the late 1920s by sisters Ruth and Katherine Wacker. Pianist John Brighenti, known to some from weekly gigs...

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 8:44am on March 8, 2017 ☆ ⚑

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