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B. Béla Babai; Paul Banks (jazz pianist) Harold Barlow (songwriter) Blue Barron; Lionel Belasco; Bob Belden; Rick Benjamin (conductor) Boyd Bennett; P. R. Bidez
Irving Aaronson (1895–1963); Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) (Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra, 1928–1947); Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929) (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band)
B. Bob Bachelder; Harry Baisden; Craig Ball (musician) Buddy Banks (saxophonist) Wilbert Baranco; Walter Barnes (musician) Charlie Barnet; Count Basie; Leo Baxter
Harry Lawrence "Tiny" Hill (July 19, 1906 – December 13, 1971) was an American band leader of the big band era. During the height of his career, Hill was billed as "America's Biggest Bandleader" [1] because of his weight of over 365 lb (166 kg). His signature song was "Angry", which he first recorded in 1939 on the Vocalion label.
From 2015 to 2016, American Authors worked on their second album, What We Live For. The lead single, "Go Big or Go Home", was released on May 18, 2015, a year before the album's publication. On December 11, 2015, the band issued the single "Pride", and "What We Live For" followed on April 1, 2016. The album was released on July 1, 2016.
Paul Samuel Whiteman [1] (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) [2] was an American Jazz bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist. [3]As the leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and early 1930s, Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz".
Lopez was born of Portuguese immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, [3] and was leading his own dance band in New York City by 1916. [1] On November 27, 1921, his band began broadcasting on the new medium of entertainment radio; the band's weekly 90-minute show on the Newark, New Jersey, station WJZ boosted the popularity of both himself and of radio.
Charles Agnew (June 22, 1901 – October 25, 1978) [1] was a popular dance-band leader. Most popular in the 1930s as a midwestern territory band appearing in a sequence of hotel ballrooms, he enjoyed a long career that extended into the 1960s.