Melba Liston UCLA Center for Oral History Research, Library Special Collections, Charles E Young Research Library, UCLA Interview Block 657 (Q17872)

Oh, there was a band that I've heard a lot about, and people say that it's one of the best jazz bands that was never recorded. It was a group that lasted only a short while in 1946 called the Stars of Swing, with Mingus and Buddy Collette and Lucky Thompson and Britt Woodman. And I think they played for four or six weeks at the Downbeat--