Your 10 Best... Big Bands
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Your 10 BestA new and regular
feature of the DHT will be YOUR TEN BEST, and we encourage you to be a part of it. Today, longtime
DHT editor and noted local brass musician, tells us his 10 Best Big Band leaders.Bill says: The Big
Band or Swing era ran roughly from 1935-45. I grew up on them on radio as a pre-schooler, probably by aural osmosis. They remain alive and relatively well today: Think the Composite High or GPRC jazz bands. In no particular
order:
Offical Colour Key(as of July 4, 2011)
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Pantone 1675 U (Solid Uncoated)
Cyan 0 Magenta 67 Yellow 100 Black 28
Pantone 1675 U (Solid Uncoated)
Stardust
Artie shAw
In The Mood, Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Glenn Miller
Stompin’ at the Savoy, Big John Special, King Porter Stomp – not to mention his trios, quartets and sextets
BennY GoodMAn
Mood Indigo, Take the A Train, Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me
duke ellinGtonBillscott
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4•Submit YOUR 10 BEST to [email protected], photos optional but welcome, and be eligible for some great prizes from the DHT •
Song of India, I’m Getting Sentimental Over You, Marie
toMMY dorseY
So Rare, Green Eyes
JiMMY dorseY
For Dancers OnlyJiMMY lunceford
(first to cross racial lines and the stage-setter for the Big Bands): Rhapsody in Blue, Hot Lips
PAul whiteMAn
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(ya gotta have a fiddle in the band! Big Band purists may disagree but fie on them): San Antonio Rose
BoB willis
(born in London, Ont.). Schmaltzy, yes, but immensely popular and long-lived: Auld Lang Syne, Harbour Lights
GuY loMBArdo
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