Alvino Rey may not be a household name today, but Rey's genre-busting fretwork in electric music's nascent years helped set the stage for modern rock. Courtesy of Lynn A Wheelwright-Alvino Rey Archive ...

To his credit, Rey loved that stuff." As the '40s wore on, Alvino Rey's steel guitar made less and less sense as a showcase jazz band instrument. By 1948, the alto saxophone rivaled the trumpet for ...

It was a couple of years ago, back when his grandfather was still alive. Win Butler and his girlfriend, Régine Chassagne, invited Alvino — Butler called him by his first name — up to their home in ...

Betty Bennett, who in the 1940s sang with bands led by Alvino Rey, Claude Thornhill and Charlie Ventura before moving to Los Angeles and recording vocal albums for Trend, Atlantic, United Artists and ...

Donna King Conkling, one of the singing King Sisters who gained fame in the 1930s and 1940s in bands led by Horace Heidt and Alvino Rey, has died. She was 88. Mrs. Conkling, who also appeared on the ...

Bear with us: Grammy-winning outfit Arcade Fire is led by very tall person Win Butler, raised a conservative Mormon in a family that famously included 1920s to 1950s bandleader Alvino Rey. Alvino Rey ...

Donna King Conkling, one of the singing King Sisters who gained fame in the 1930s and 1940s in bands led by Horace Heidt and Alvino Rey, has died. She was 88. Mrs. Conkling, who also appeared on the ...

A girl (Ann Miller) wins a trip to Hollywood, finds romance with a writer (Jess Barker). A multitude of orchestra numbers. Charlie Barnet, Louis Armstrong, Alvino Rey, Jan Garber, Glen Gray, Teddy ...