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These songs still rank among the most recorded standards. [1] Johnny Green's "Body and Soul" was used in a Broadway show and became a hit after Coleman Hawkins's 1939 recording. It is the most recorded jazz standard of all time. [2] In the 1930s, swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music.
Duke Ellington and his band members composed numerous swing era hits that have become standards: "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (1932), "Sophisticated Lady" (1933) and "Caravan" (1936), among others. Trumpeter, bandleader and singer Louis Armstrong was a much-imitated innovator of early jazz. Swing was also dance music.
The jazz, R&B, and swing revival vocal group Manhattan Transfer and Bette Midler included swing era hits on albums during the early 1970s. In Seattle the New Deal Rhythm Band and the Horns O Plenty Orchestra revived 1930s swing with a dose of comedy behind vocalists Phil "De Basket" Shallat, Cheryl "Benzene" Bentyne , and six-foot-tall "Little ...
Pages in category "1930s jazz standards" The following 151 pages are in this category, out of 151 total. ... Minor Swing (composition) Mood Indigo; Moonburn; Moonglow ...
Several factors led to the demise of the swing era: the 1942–1944 musicians' strike from August 1942 to November 1944 (The union that most jazz musicians belong to told its members not to record until the record companies agreed to pay them each time their music was played on the radio), the earlier ban of ASCAP songs from radio stations ...
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1930. Musicians born that year included Ornette Coleman , Herbie Mann , Helen Merrill , Sonny Rollins , Ray Charles and Clifford Brown .
Sam Woodyard in 1965 The George Coleman Quintet, 2012 Ran Blake at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, California, June 14, 1987 Dino Saluzzi Rahsaan Roland Kirk performing in 1972 Bent Jædig in 2010 Johnny Mathis in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, on May 25, 2006 Composer Yasunao Tone in 2007
The 1930s belonged to popular swing big bands, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "big" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie , Cab Calloway , Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey , Duke Ellington , Benny Goodman , Fletcher Henderson , Earl Hines , Harry James , Jimmie ...