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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 ...
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.
Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929) (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band) Ray Anthony (born 1922) Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971) Georgie Auld (1919-1990) (Georgie Auld and His Orchestra, Georgie Auld and His Hollywood All Stars)
Musical groups from the Big Band era of swing and beyond. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. Experimental big ...
Singers associated with big bands. Pages in category "Big band singers" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
The swing era brought to swing music Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and by 1938 Ella Fitzgerald. Armstrong, who had heavily influenced jazz as its greatest soloist in the 1920s when working with both small bands and larger ones, now appeared only with big swing bands.
Big band swing could variably be an instrumental style or accompany a vocalist. In comparison to its loud, brash, rhythmic sound stood the "sweet" bands which played a softer, more melodic style. The most notable of these, in no small part thanks to a long postwar TV career, was the band of Lawrence Welk .
The following is a list of big band musicians Ray Anthony (b. 1922) Buster Bailey (1902–1967) [1] Count Basie (1904–1984) [2] John Beasley (b. 1960) ...