Top 10 Best Big Band Music

Various Artists - The Only Big Band CD You'll Ever Need - CD Brand New.

Memorable Little Brown Jug - played up until the fateful crash in 1944. Pennsylvania 6-5000 - surely the most famous telephone number in the world. 23 Amazing up-tempo tunes to get us In The Mood. Elmer's Tune with Miller playing a muted trombone solo. Along with his contemporaries, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Artie Shaw and others, Glenn Miller was a driving force and combined swing with out and out dance music which kept the publics attention, not only in those five short years which saw the outbreak of World War II, but ever since..

Our window on a long gone world opens with a piece by the legendary Count Basie Orchestra of the late 1930s. From the simplest of riff patterns, developed in the heady atmosphere of Kansas City jam sessions, an arrangement like Sent For You Yesterday would emerge, complete with fine solos and propulsive section work, the momentum supplied by one of the most perfect rhythm teams in all of jazz.. Jack Teagarden 1905-64, another Texan, was the most celebrated jazz trombonist of his day but a reluctant band leader, with little appetite for business. His playing was always relaxed, at its best in the company of his peers.. Benny Goodman's triumph at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles on August 21, 1935, marked the official start to the 'swing era'. Sidemen became the focus of unprecedented attention, much like soccer players today, and crowds gathered wherever Goodman appeared.. Louis Armstrong 1901-71, the fabulous 'Satchmo', was the single most important innovator in early jazz. By 1942, he had become a popular entertainer and a familiar presence in musical films. Bill Ashton, founder of the superb National Youth Jazz Orchestra, aptly summed up the virtue of these and all their counterparts when he said that 'there's nothing more exciting in music than a big band in full flight.'.

Of course, to lovers of between-the-wars jazz, swing is far more than a portmanteau term for a musical style. But try to get a fan or indeed, a critic to define what they mean by swing and you tend to get a response which echoes Fats Waller's famous dictum If you have to ask, you'll never know.. What better way to open our marvellous collection of re-mastered classics from the swing era than with At The Woodchopper's Ball Woody Herman's greatest commercial and popular success features Woody's haunting blues clarinet and Neil Reid's punchy trombone with Saxie Mansfield on tenor-saxophone and trumpeter Steady Nelson.. Benny Goodman makes two appearances in our compilation and that is only fitting, given his dominant position in the swing pantheon. Christened the 'King of Swing' by his promotions people, Goodman was an incisive instrumentalist, a clarinet virtuoso who had emerged from Chicago's Jewish ghetto, made good musically and formed an excellent big band.. It was Lil Armstrong nee Hardin who set her husband Louis on the path to stardom with some astute promotional ideas. When he moved on and they divorced, Lil re-built her career as a bandleader and cut some tasty small-group records. Her tribute to the Lindy Hop a dance craze pioneered at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom spots her girlish vocal and some hot trumpet from the underrated Shirley Clay.. Louis Armstrong so much liked Swing That Music that he used it as the title for his ghosted autobiography. He made two versions of this exciting piece in 1936, the first with his own band and this with the popular Jimmy Dorsey orchestra just three months later..

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