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Author : Albert J. McCarthy
Publisher : Philadelphia : Chilton Book Company
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011444978
Author : Alice Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123916798
Author : John R. Tumpak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015080853248
Fifteen-piece swinging dance bands swept the country in popularity during the big band era of 1935-1946, the only time in America's history to-date when jazz was the most popular form of music. This book provides detailed profiles, many based on personal interviews, of the era's bandleaders, musicians, vocalists, arrangers, and contributors.--Publisher's information.
Author : Arthur Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004310152
"The World of the Big Bands presents for the first time the complete story of the big bands which have played such an important part in the evolution of modern music. Famous bands with their individual styles: swing, jazz, dance music, Hawaiian and comedy; and their soloists, arrangers and singers are nostalgically recalled with authority and from the author's personal experience of the era." --
Author : Jack Behrens
Publisher : Author House
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781425969776
Where did big bands and swing music go? They didn't leave. . . but many Americans actually believe they disappeared along with ballrooms, jukeboxes, bobby sox and zoot suits decades ago. Band leader Brooks Tegler, who has recreated the great music of World War II with his Army Air Corps Review Big Band, offers a good response. "In order for something to come back, it needs to have gone away. Big bands have wrongly been put in that category. They never went away." And that's the essence of the chapters of my book about America's big bands, ballrooms and dancing's past and present. And there's a good look at the future through the eyes of a number of young bandleaders from the east to west coast who carry on in the tradition of Guy Lombardo, Glenn Miller, Harry James, Woody Herman, Duke Ellington and a host of other music legends in their own distinctive way. The struggle to survive in the music business hasn't been without losses and a need for life support. It did when Miller, Benny Goodman, James and Ellington were in their heyday. It's a financially precarious business regardless of your talent. Inevitably, music and dancing evolved and matured. The reasons are numerous and linked to our heritage. But like marching bands on the 4th of July, imagine a country club new year's eve without live dance music and a big band. Think about the many community social events and high school and college proms let alone wedding receptions that still insist on having live bands to play the foxtrots and swing numbers people enjoy. My research shows that while there were approximately 800 big bands on the road during the swing era of the 1940s, today there are nearly 1,300 big bands, according to a Google search and a review of hundreds of territory bands. Consequently, neither the bands nor the music vanished. . . they scattered throughout the American countryside.
Author : George T. Simon
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857128126
In this book you will find an astounding 400 biographies that highlight the history and personnel of the great bands. It is organized into four sections: “The Big Bands--Then” (the scene, the leaders, the public, the musicians, vocalists, arrangers and businessmen, recordings, radio, movies and the press); “Inside the Big Bands” (profiles of 72 top bands); “Inside More of the Big Bands” (hundreds of additional profiles arranged by categories (“The Arranging Leaders,” “The Horn-playing Leaders,” etc.); and “The Big Bands Now.” The Big Bands is one of the best books on the subject. It is both readable and an invaluable reference source for the study of jazz standards since many were written by big band leaders or musicians or were popularized through their performances and recordings. The index is comprehensive with names but lists no songs. George T. Simon was one of the original organizers and members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra for which he played the drums. He was also one of the first writers for Metronome Magazine where he remained from 1935 until 1955.
Author : Brian Rust
Publisher : New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Big bands
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011323370
Author : Degen Pener
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0316076678
Ten years ago a revival of swing took place, originating in San Francisco, snowballing into today's international resurgence. This book presents the complete history of swing music and dancing, then and now.
Author : Gene Fernett
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106010407291
From the earliest riverboat jazz to Dizzy Gillespie's Hep-Sations of 1945, Swing Out is the story of the great black dance bands who dazzled America for over 40 years. Included are stories of the greats: how Fletcher Henderson would become so hypnotised by the sound of his band that he would quit playing piano and just listen; how Bubber Miley of the Duke Ellington Orchestra invented the growl technique; how Noble Sissle became the darling of the international set; how John Hammond brought Count Basie to New York; how Erskine Hawkins developed a short musical break into the hit Tuxedo Junction; how Jimmie Lunceford created his orchestra from his high school students; and scores of other inside stories about such notables as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway and Earl Hines.
Author : Stanley Dance
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015025469357
V.1. The world of swing. -- v. 2. The world of Earl Himes.
Author : Albert MCCARTHY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6003290706
Author : William Emmett Studwell,Mark Baldin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0789009145
Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller were musical masters of their eras, enchanting and romancing audiences with their timeless classics. Relive these wonderful songs and memories through The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles, a unique and exciting collection of over 140 songs from over 70 bands that are categorized by themes, preferred numbers, and top songs! Paying tribute to better known swing bands, sweet bands (ensembles favoring softer, more sentimental numbers), and some unheralded bands (good ensembles that did not receive much attention or did not have a well-known leader), this book contains up to four essays relating to specific groups and their popular hits, giving readers historical and informative facts about the songs and the people who performed them.
Author : Albert John MacCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01
Category : Big band music
ISBN : 0801972302
Author : Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 1604736763
It was for stage bands, for dancing, and for a jiving mood of letting go. Throughout the nation swing re-sounded with the spirit of good times. But this pop genre, for a decade America's favorite, arose during the worst of times, the Great Depression. From its peak in the 1930s until bebop, r & b, and country swamped it after World War II, swing defined an American generation and measured America's musical heartbeat. In its heyday swing reached a mass audience of very disparate individuals and united them. They perceived in the tempers and tempos of swing the very definition of modernity. A survey of the thirties reveals that the time was indeed the Swing Era, America's segue into modernity. What social structures encouraged swing's creation, acceptance, and popularity? Swing, That Modern Sound examines the cultural and historical significance of swing and tells how and why it achieved its audience, unified its fans, defined its generation, and, after World War II, fell into decline. What fed the music? And, in turn, what did the music feed? This book shows that swing manifested the kind of up-to-date allure that the populace craved. Swing sounded modern, happy, optimistic. It flouted the hardship signals of the Great Depression. The key to its rise and appeal, this book argues, was its all-out appropriation of modernity--consumer advertising, the language and symbols of consumption, and the public's all-too-evident wish for goods during a period of scarcity. As it examines the role of race, class, and gender in the creation of this modern music, Swing, That Modern Sound tells how a music genre came to symbolize the cultural revolution taking place in America. Kenneth J. Bindas is an associate professor of history at Kent State University, Trumbull Campus, in Warren, Ohio. He is the author of All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society, 1935--1939.
Author : Pete Mac
Publisher : Dave Mallinson Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11
Category : Big band music
ISBN : 189951256X
Edited by piano accordion player Pete Mac, Band Swing is an indispensible source book for musicians playing in folk dance bands, who need suitable, playable tunes which work well together. The tunes have been written out in a straight forward way with chord symbols included. On pages labelled as Reels, Polkas, Jigs, Hornpipes or Waltzes, individual tunes can be played from top to bottom as a sequence of similar tunes. In the Specials section, if more than one tune is shown for a dance, the tunes have been specially chosen to be played in a sequence. Special care has been given to making these arrangements easy to call and dance to. Some of the tunes in this book have easier arrangements printed on the opposite page, these make it easier for less experienced musicians to contribute to the sound of the band and to play at normal band tempo. Mally's and UK product #AR110.
