Big band swing

Doug Lawrence & His Orchestra: Big Band Swing

That created an audience of approximately 91 million. I saw the Glen Miller band perform at the N. Rubber and gasoline rationing made it difficult for bands to travel. Perhaps sensing a threat, some of the older big bandleaders, particularly Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, criticised this new style of jazz. Richard Olsen can tailor the size and style of his band to meet your needs. As jazz migrated from its New Orleans origin to Chicago and New York City, energetic, suggestive dances traveled with it.

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They experimented with new forms of harmonic structure. The young men had traveled abroad and heard new forms of music and recorded entertainment. Though not a noted improviser, Miller was a fine trombonist and superb arranger. Many of the great swing bands broke up, as the times and tastes changed. Times were hard: there was a scarcity of shellac making it difficult to manufacture the discs. They experiment, then memorize the way they are going to perform the piece, without writing it on sheet music.

Swing Music

Running a big band was a tricky exercise in financial astuteness and man-management, as well as a test of musical prowess. They began in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The bands led by Helen Lewis, , and Roger Wolfe Kahn's band were filmed by in his sound-on-film process in 1925, in three short films which are in the film collection. The height of the swing era was between the years 1935 to 1940, and many jazz bandleaders enjoyed huge success, none more so than Goodman, a dazzling clarinet player. The Savoy Ballroom in Harlem opened its doors in 1926 and for the next 20 years became a hotbed for swing bands. Even superb musicians the likes of Benny Carter and Hawkins went to Europe to find work with radio orchestras. Jukeboxes By 1940 the number of radio stations had grown faster than the availability of live variety acts.

The Olney Big Band: Swing, Dance Jazz in Olney, Maryland

Jazz in the form of big band swing was now beginning to sweep the nation. Sometimes bandstands were too small, public address systems inadequate, pianos out of tune. Even Frank Sinatra sang a couple of tunes without his usual big-band backup. Jukeboxes were everywhere, kids were dancing, record jockeys were spinning discs and talking them up and the public appetite seemed inexhaustible. The Casa Loma Orchestra was a favorite at Yale. Records were more important to a music-loving public than ever. Big band music continued to dominate the airwaves during the years of World War Two, when the music of Glenn Miller captivated the public.

Big Bands and the Swing Era

This coincided with a feeling, in jazz circles, that bigger was better. With no market for small-group recordings made worse by a Depression-era industry reluctant to take risks , musicians such as Louis Armstrong and led their own bands, while others, like Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver, lapsed into obscurity. It was not terribly successful until he hit the West Coast. Swing jazz in the big band format was growing in popularity with college kids. In the electric microphone era, Lee was able to command even a searing big band with delicate inflections. As the jazz orchestras grew in size, the arrangements had to be formalized to avoid mass confusion. They were too late for most high school and college students who needed to be up early for school.

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Fletcher Henderson helped establish big band music in the 20s In the immediate aftermath of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, big bands felt the effects of the Great Depression, with even Henderson forced to disband temporarily. In the late 1990s, there was a in the U. Drinking and addiction were common. The jukebox simply made it readily available in speakeasies, dance spots, ice cream parlors and even drugstores. If you're not dancing, you're wasting your feet!. Guitar replaced the , and double bass replaced the. They were assisted by a band full of talent: on tenor saxophone, on cornet, and multi-instrumentalist , whose career lasted into the 1990s.

Swing, Swing, Swing: The Best Jazz Bandleaders Of All Time

There was very little work, especially for non-essential musicians. Before the 1930s, small ensembles, usually consisting of a , trombone, clarinet, tuba or bass, banjo or piano, and drums, performed jazz. In the 1920s the music of jazz began to evolve to bigger band formats combining elements of ragtime, black spirituals, blues, and European music. Personal problems and band discord affected the group. All they seemed to say was it should go to the union. Now in its 15th year, the Band is available for all types of events.

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Many bands toured the country in grueling one-night stands. Progressive bands were led by , , , , , and. Robert Tennyson, the Band provides an opportunity for both its instrumentalists and vocalists to participate in a well-organized music ensemble. Improvisation alo had a featured role, and soloists would play while the rest of the band, aside from the , dropped out or played arranged background lines. Although the big-band era ended by 1946, there have been some large orchestras used in jazz ever since, even if virtually none other than the Count Basie ghost band operate on a full-time basis. Some of the most talented or well-connected players got jobs at radio studios or with some of the few dance orchestras able to stay together. Basie had wonderful musicians in his band, which had originated in Kansas, including bassist Walter Page and tenor saxophonist , and he brought in top-calibre vocalists, among them Jimmy Rushing and.

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With the exception of , who continued playing in the New Orleans style, bandleaders paid attention to the demand for dance music and created their own big bands. The King Of Swing: clarinetist Benny Goodman It was also a time when radio audiences were at their peak and stations needed fresh music to help fill their schedules. The Big Band Era — The Swing Era The Big Band era is generally regarded as having occurred between 1935 and 1945. It was 1945 and the decline of the Big Bands had begun. Ballroom dancers had also tired of the rigours of frenetic jazz dancing and came to favour the more sentimental music sung on radio shows by crooners such as Bing Crosby. Under his watchful eye, she honed her technique. He had previously told the companies that they could record for home and Army use, but when it was pointed out to him that the companies would be violating the law if they tried to regulate who bought their records, Petrillo made the edict a complete stoppage.

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