The Diva Jazz Orchestra is on this week’s Radio Munson along with Doc Severinsen’s Tonight Show Band, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, and the 1935 song by the Dorsey Brothers Band that caused brothers Tommy and Jimmy to go their separate ways as band leaders for the next 20 years.

Don plays an all-time tenor saxophone solo on this week’s Radio Munson when he spins Coleman Hawkins’ recording of “Body and Soul.” There’s also an exciting vintage track of Count Basie’s band rocking the famed Savoy Ballroom in 1938, featuring Lester Young and Jimmy Rushing; plus Ann Hampton Callaway, a pair of tunes from Curtis Stigers with the Danish Radio Big Band, and a trip into Central Illinois’ past with Tiny Hill, the biggest band leader of them all.

There’s plenty of musical time travel on this week’s Radio Munson from Hollywood to New Orleans, from San Antonio to Chicago, and from Newport Rhode Island to the trenches in France during the First World War. Drummer Buddy Rich punches your ticket opening Don’s show with “Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)".

Woody Herman’s Herd swings Radio Munson into gear this week, joined on Don’s playlist by the bands of Charlie Barnet, Doc Severinsen, Ted Seems and Benny Goodman. Bette Midler sings a swinger and so do Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and Betty Hutton, among others.

“Things Ain’t What They Used To Be” is a song title but it’s also a statement on American life today. Don Munson offers a couple of hours of “used to be” on this week’s Radio Munson. Clark Terry does honors on “Things Ain’t What They Used To Be, Sarah Vaughan sings “My Old Flame,” and Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks play “Stardust,” as nostalgia rules the evening.

The Boswell Sisters of the 1930s were like many of us today—when we get tired of the winter cold, we try to get away for a while. Unlike most of us, though, the Boswell girls opted to “Shuffle off to Buffalo.” The Boswell Sisters are on this week’s Radio Munson, along with the Delta Rhythm Boys, who take the A Train, and Anita O’Day, who reports “Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year."

Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli were both born during the 4th week of January—violinist Grappelli on January 26th, 1908, in Paris, and guitarist Reinhardt on January 23rd two years later in Belgium. When the two jazz virtuosos signed on as the new house band at the Hot Club of France in the early ‘30s they made history founding a jazz genre that flourishes today. Don features some “Gypsy Jazz” from the Quintet of The Hot Club of France on this week’s radio Munson.

The term “Lounge Act” has become such a caricature in recent years that Don Munson thinks it is doing a gross injustice to the great artists who have flourished in small jazz clubs and lounges thru the decades. So he’s inviting you to drop by the Radio Munson West Jazz Lounge this week to hear Bobby Troup, Carmen McRae, Matt Dennis, Ben Webster, Blossom Dearie, Gene Harris, and more. It’s small group jazz at its best—not a big band in the house!

There’s a whole bunch of boogie boogie on this week’s Radio Munson, along with a song from the award-winning musical “La La Land,” the fight song of the football champion Clemson Tigers, a New Orleans rouser from Pete Fountain and Al Hirt, plus the big bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton.

Radio Munson comes swinging into 2017 with Ella Fitzgerald, Slim & Slam, Nancy Wilson, Ray Charles, the Pointer Sisters, Pokey LaFarge and, for good measure, Spike Jones and his City Slickers.