Mississippi Suite
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Mississippi; Tone Journey is a 1926 orchestral suite in four movements by Ferde Grofé, depicting scenes along a journey down the Mississippi River from its headwaters of Minnesota to New Orleans.
1928 Victor Records release
Paul Whiteman
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Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American jazz bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.
Mississippi Suite
…down the Mississippi River from its headwaters of Minnesota to New Orleans. The work was composed by Grofé in 1926 and first performed that year by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra in New York City. Publisher Leo Feist, Inc., New York copyrighted the composition on April 20 as "Mississippi; Tone Journey" and described…
Whiteman in a 1939 publicity photo
Whiteman and his orchestra, 1921
The members of Whiteman's Orchestra in 1930
A frame from the trailer for the film Rhapsody in Blue (1945)