Thank you so much for all the responses. It certainly gives me a good direction to follow for learning and acquiring copyrights for broadcast and commercial distribution. It will be a first time thing for me, but I think the nature of the project will benefit highly from the use of this music, or music from this particular band leader. At the very least learning the process of acquiring rights will be very fulfilling. I'm really interested in learning how much something like this would even cost, really in the scale of 40's music my potential choices are very under the general radar which gives me hope that whatever monetary value it holds will be reasonable. (oh I hope. haha) Thank you again for the resources and information, I can't wait to read up about the Sita Sings the Blues article also. Always good to know what to watch out for. In the end it maybe easier to use a indie/local jazz band, but much in the vein of what this whole list is all about, this music should be cherished and shared. Even if its a pain in the rump to so. Thanks, Peter Charuza