As with others, I too have been a huge fan of your mother's extraordinary musicianship from an early age; indeed, I came upon this site while putting together a biography to share with friends not yet acquainted with her. Almost every recording she made was definitive of that song.
Back in about the mid-1970's, Chuck Cecil, creator and host of the radio program "The Swingin' Years," did a marvelous telephone interview with your mother for a segment of one of his shows; if memory serves, she was then living in Arizona. If you do not know of this interview, I would be shocked if Mr. Cecil would not gladly furnish you with a copy. (You should be able to contact him through radio station KKJZ at Long Beach State University in California, http://www.jazzandblues.org/in... .)
In that interview, I recall your mother saying something to the effect that the big band era was the pinnacle of American popular music; one reason that is true, of course, is because of the contributions of Helen Forrest.
Hello Mr. Feinman,
As with others, I too have been a huge fan of your mother's extraordinary musicianship from an early age; indeed, I came upon this site while putting together a biography to share with friends not yet acquainted with her. Almost every recording she made was definitive of that song.
Back in about the mid-1970's, Chuck Cecil, creator and host of the radio program "The Swingin' Years," did a marvelous telephone interview with your mother for a segment of one of his shows; if memory serves, she was then living in Arizona. If you do not know of this interview, I would be shocked if Mr. Cecil would not gladly furnish you with a copy. (You should be able to contact him through radio station KKJZ at Long Beach State University in California, http://www.jazzandblues.org/in... .)
In that interview, I recall your mother saying something to the effect that the big band era was the pinnacle of American popular music; one reason that is true, of course, is because of the contributions of Helen Forrest.
With warmest regards,
A.J. Averett