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Fact #8764

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American music trade magazine Billboard reports that jazz bandleader Woody Herman will shortly be slimming down his orchestra to a 12-piece outfit in order to focus on dance music. 'You've got to give the people what they want,' he tells Billboard, 'or you've got to go broke.'