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Swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music, 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, Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw.
US Billboard 1930 #1, US #1 for 10 weeks, 21 total weeks 2: Don Azpiazu and His Havana Casino Orchestra "The Peanut Vendor" [5] Victor 22483: May 13, 1930 () September 1930 () US Billboard 1930 #2, US #1 for 7 weeks, 28 total weeks, [3] National Recording Registry 2005: 3: Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra (voc Lewis James)
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 ...
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.
By the 1930s, however, newer forms of pop-jazz like swing music and Dixieland had overtaken authentic New Orleans-style jazz among mainstream audiences. Dixieland jazz is a form of jazz which arose in the 1920s in Chicago. Musicians there were trying to revive authentic, classic New Orleans jazz.
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 .
Lasting between the 1910s and the mid-1930s, the influence of the time is still felt today. ... his love of music and natural talent propelled him to the ranks of some of America’s most famous ...
Though this was its most popular period, the music had actually been around since the late 1920s and early 1930s, being played by black bands led by such artists as Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Bennie Moten, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines, and Fletcher Henderson, and white bands from the 1920s led by the likes of Jean Goldkette, Russ Morgan and ...