Benny Carter, Charlie Barnet etc. - Jubilee Shows 207 & 214

This one-hour CD (20 tunes) is comprised of two Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) programs recorded in early 1945 in Los Angeles to entertain US troops abroad during World War II. The main acts are the Benny Carter and Charlie Barnet Orchestras, the Nat King Cole Trio, vocalist Betty Roch� and comedian/entertainer Jimmy Durante. Like all AFRS shows, these two programmes present the top entertainment - jazz, popular music and comedy - acts of the early-mid 1940s. The two shows present top swing acts, where it is possible to detect the beginnings of bebop inspiration, especially in Charlie Barnet's Orchestra.