Digital Archive

Top big band leader Woody Herman dies

Order Reproduction

Top big band leader Woody Herman dies

Date5/16/1986

Names

Herman, Woody, 1913-1987 (subject)

Mahler, John (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Top big band leader Woody Herman dies: Big band leader Woody Herman, whose 50-year career took him from smart ballrooms to African villages and from blues to rock 'n' roll, died yesterday. He was 74. Herman, suffering congestive heart failure, emphysema and pneumonia, died at 2.45 p.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. Herman ''was one of the most wonderful human beings in the whole world,'' said his manager Tom Cassidy in Woodstock, III. ''He never quit.''

Subject

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)

Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0054721F

Discover More

9/6/1972

Bandleader Woody Herman believes in keeping up with the times, and employing a hip pianist with long hair, Alan Broadbent (right), is one of the ways (...)

Bandleader Woody Herman believes in keeping up with the times, and employing a hip pianist with long hair, Alan Broadbent (right), is one of the ways (...)

6/22/1971

Bandleader Woody Herman: Veteran clarinetist is at the Savarin

Bandleader Woody Herman: Veteran clarinetist is at the Savarin

9/6/1972

8/22/1975

8/22/1975

At the Palais Royale last year: Bandleader and clarinettist Woody Herman played at a bash for donations to help pay his back taxes and the rent for a house he once owned

At the Palais Royale last year: Bandleader and clarinettist Woody Herman played at a bash for donations to help pay his back taxes and the rent for a house he once owned

5/16/1986

8/22/1975

9/28/1973

5/16/1986

7/12/1966

Singer Shirley Bassey's strength is primarily visual, says critic Peter Goddard of her performance with the Woody Herman band in concert at Massey Hal(...)

Singer Shirley Bassey's strength is primarily visual, says critic Peter Goddard of her performance with the Woody Herman band in concert at Massey Hal(...)

4/28/1973

Singer Bob Eberly led the Jimmy Dorsey Band through its paces for 1,000 dancers at the 'big band month' dance in the International Centre on Airport R(...)

Singer Bob Eberly led the Jimmy Dorsey Band through its paces for 1,000 dancers at the 'big band month' dance in the International Centre on Airport R(...)

5/3/1975