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  2. List of big bands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. BBC Big Band - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Swing era - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Category:Big bands - Wikipedia

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    Musical groups from the Big Band era of swing and beyond. ... BBC Big Band; BBC Northern Dance Orchestra; Beantown Swing Orchestra; Bergen Big Band;

  6. Big band - Wikipedia

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    The United States Navy Band Northwest Big Band plays at a concert held in Oak Harbor High School.. 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.

  7. Sweet & Swing - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Swing music - Wikipedia

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    The Earl Hines Orchestra in 1943 featured a collection of young, forward-looking musicians who were at the core of the bebop movement and would in the following year be in the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, the first big band to showcase bebop. As the swing era went into decline, it secured legacies in vocalist-centered popular music, "progressive ...

  9. '40s Junction - Wikipedia

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    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.