Woody Herman's Third Herd - Another Look and Listen - Part 1

In 2018, Scott Wenzel sent me an e-mail that changed my world forever, the equivalent of an award for writing. He asked me to write the notes for a boxed set of Woody Herman recordings that encompassed the years 1943 - 4, Herman’s Carnegie Hall Concert with the First Herd, and recordings for MGM and his own Mars label with the ensemble that came to be k…