Longview is a bluegrass alliance that brings together members of the Seldom Scene, the Johnson Mountain Boys and other leading bands.
"It's like being a great pitcher," said Mr. Rubin, 79, who has been leading bands for 60 years.
He toured to the East and West coasts and recorded often, usually leading bands of veteran New Orleans musicians; in 1945 he worked with the Sidney Bechet band.
Very public declarations of support have been made by a number of leading bands, such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Franz Ferdinand, touring Russia this summer.
"We had all these leading bands of squalls with tornadoes buried in them and the TV guy pointing out where they were.
Featuring the hit "Roundabout," the album established Yes as one of progressive rock's leading bands, rivaled only by Genesis and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
From the age of 13, he earned money playing the accordion, and he later formed two groups, the Biggest Little Band in America and the Hotsy-Totsy Boys, before leading bands and orchestras, mainly in the Midwest.
And who wouldn't be fascinated, most of all, by a music scene where the fact that the bassist in one of the leading bands took part in a plane hijacking wasn't regarded as all that unusual?
Soon leading bands of his own, Mr. Rochereau recorded constantly and hired superb local sidemen, including auxiliary vocalists almost as gruff as his great rival Luambo Franco or as delectable as himself.
