During the 1930’s jazz gravitated towards New York, where specialist jazz venues like The Cotton Club drew audiences like moths to a flame. Musicians from previously important jazz centres like New Orleans, Chicago and Kansas City — the home of the Count Basie Band — were drawn to New York by the quickly developing jazz scene. Pioneers like Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson were soon followed a list of band leaders that reads like a who’s who of jazz and big band swing music: Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Harry James, Artie Shaw and, arguably, the most commercially successful of them all, a certain Glenn Miller.