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Crescent Super Band - Jazz, Jump Swing, Modern Big Band, Swing Revival, Great American Songbook. Columbus Jazz Orchestra. Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band. Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Ray Conniff. Spade Cooley - jazz, swing. Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra. Del Courtney. Bob Crosby.
Gordon Goodwin (born 1954) (Big Phat Band) Glen Gray (1900-1963) ( Casa Loma Orchestra ) (1927-1963) George Gee (George Gee Swing Orchestra; formerly known as the Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra)
List of popular music genres. v. t. e. Frankie Laine (at piano) and Patti Page, c. 1950. Harry Belafonte, 1954. This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s.
thecountbasieorchestra.com. The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the big band era itself and the death of ...
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to ...
Whereas big band/swing music placed the primary emphasis on the orchestration, post-war/early 1950s era Pop focused on the song’s story and/or the emotion being expressed. By the early 1950s, emotional delivery had reached its apex in the miniature psycho-drama songs of writer-singer Johnnie Ray.
Spike Jones. Lindley Armstrong " Spike " Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) [1] was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups, burps, and outlandish and comedic vocals.
ISBN 1-904041-96-5. The swing era (also frequently referred to as the big band era) was the period (1933–1947) when big band swing music was the most popular music in the United States, especially for teenagers. Though this was its most popular period, the music had actually been around since the late 1920s and early 1930s, being played by ...
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