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Sunday Night At 10, also known as The Age of Swing, [1] was a weekly hour long programme on BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom. Aired on Sunday evenings at 10pm, it featured big band music from the late 1930s and early 1940s through to the present day.
The BBC Big Band, originally known as the BBC Radio Big Band is a British big band, previously run under the auspices of the British Broadcasting Corporation . The band broadcasts exclusively on BBC Radio, particularly on BBC Radio 2's long-running series Big Band Special. It consists of professional musicians and is directed by a number of ...
Sweet & Swing is a radio programme broadcast on Manx Radio, featuring music from the big band era. [1] The show is presented by Howard Caine (known as "H"), having previously been a joint presentation with the late Jim "The Jazz" Caine, the programme's creator. In January 2017 Manx Radio introduced a sister programme to Sweet & Swing titled ...
Many big band musicians played in Hotel Pennsylvania's Cafe Rouge in New York City, including the Glenn Miller Orchestra. [1]The hotel's telephone number, Pennsylvania 6-5000, inspired the Glenn Miller 1940 Top 5 Billboard hit of the same name, which had a 12-week chart run. [2]
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 ...
Musical groups from the Big Band era of swing and beyond. ... Aylesbury Music Centre Dance Band; B. Bama State Collegians; Leo Baxter Orchestra; BBC Big Band;
The channel mainly airs big band, swing, and hit parade music from 1936 to 1949, with occasional songs from the early-1950s. Until May 7, 2015, the station was known as ' 40 s on 4 , with programming being broadcast on channel 4, as part of the "Decades" line-up of stations.
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.