Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement.
3 Swing revival groups (post-1960) 4 References. ... The Quebe Sisters Band (2000–) Riders in the Sky (1977–) Shoot Low Sheriff (2008–) References
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos.
Though some big bands survived through the late 1940s (Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Woody Herman), most of their competitors were forced to disband, bringing the swing era to a close. Big-band jazz would experience a resurgence starting in the mid-1950s, but it would never attain the same popularity as it had during ...
A Dixieland revival began in the United States on the West Coast in the late 1930s as a backlash to the Chicago style, which was close to swing. Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, and trombonist Turk Murphy, adopted the repertoire of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and W. C. Handy: bands included banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections.
In the 1930s "shag" became a blanket term that signified a rather large family of jitterbug dances (swing dances) that all shared certain characteristics. The most notable of these characteristics are (1) a pulse that's consistently held up high on the balls of the feet (a.k.a. a "bounce" or "hop" to match every beat in the music) and (2) footwork with kicks that reach full extension on the ...
Easy Goin' Swing (RCA Victor, 1960) Sophisticated Sixties (MGM, 1960) The Shape of Sounds to Come (MGM, 1961) Visions American Legends: A New Look And A New Sound (MGM, 1961) Music in Motion! (MGM, 1962) More Music in Motion (MGM, 1962) The City (MGM, 1963) The Larry Elgart Dance Band (Project 3, 1979) (reissue of New Sounds at the Roosevelt)