Favorite 'Big' Bands??

Self ^ | 12/31/01 | Freepers Comments

[maestro]

Everything and everyone 'counts'!
(It all adds up!!)
Thanks for 'sharing'!
(Nothing like that 'Leslie' sound.)

[Huck]

I saw Buddy Rich and his band. They were very good.

[maestro]

Yup, Buddy Rich and his band sure were good! VERY!
:-)

[WIMom]

LOL! Actually, they are a bunch of guys that look and play the part of a big band. The dress up and have the banners hanging off their music stands with the logo and all that. Very entertaining and very professional. Of course they don't play any original stuff, just tunes from the big band heyday.

[WIMom]

My dad plays a mean radio! LOL!

[Huck]

Buddy Rich was awesome. As Jerry Garcia once sang:

Cats on the bandstand,
Give 'em each a big hand,
Anyone who sweats like that must be alright

from "Cats Out Under The Stars", Jerry Garcia Band

[Vince Ferrer]

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Probably doesn't qualify.

But Brian Setzer's Orchestra does.

[maestro]

Brian Setzer's Orchestra ? More...?

[okie01]

"The 'Duke'!.....The 'Genious'!!!"

The Duke. Three times. Between 1956 and '60. Same personnel each time, as I recall -- Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Paul Gonsalves and Jimmy Hamilton on saxes, Ray Nance, Cat Anderson, Clark Terry and Willie Cook on trumpet, Lawrence Brown, Quentin "Butter" Jackson and Tyree Glenn on trombone, a bassist I can't recall and Sam Woodyard on drums.

I'll never forget that band. Fifteen instruments that played as one organism with fifteen voices.

[JoJo the Clown]

The Don Ellis Orchestra !! Maynard Ferguson's big band of the 1970's and 1980's!!

[okie01]

"I saw Lionel Hampton, I don't think that qualifies as big band, but he was still excellent."

Hamp had a big band. Played my senior prom in college.

A wonderful, animated entertainer and musician. Toured into his eighties, as I recall.

[kylaka]

I just downloaded Glenn Miller's "lost recordings" a double disc recorded less than a month before he disappeared in December 1944. Oldly enough it was recorded at Abbey Road studios of Beatles fame some 17 years later. Good stuff too.

I also plucked a 4 disc set off the web a few months back labeled only as "swing" music. It is a mixture of Goodman, Basie, Gillespie, Shaw, Gray, Herman, Miller and about 10 others. All the tracks were remixed in STEREO. It sounds like it was recorded last week. It blows me away every time I listen to it.

[Octar]

Fletcher Henderson.

Whoops, just showed my age.

[chnsmok]

Glenn Miller... I wish I could have listened live! How did Rock replace the sound of jazz or band?

[Vince Ferrer]

Brian Setzer's Orchestra ? More...?

Brian Setzer was the lead singer of the Stray Cats from the 80's. The last few years he has had a sixteen member band and released about four swing albums as The Brian Setzer Orchestra. "The Dirty Boogie" and "Guitar Slinger" are CDs well worth buying.

[maestro]

'78's' and radio!!! Hotels and Ballrooms!!!

[maestro]

Thank you!

[maestro]

Right! Nothing like today's technology!
Thanks!

[maestro]

For sure!!
I too was there!!
Thanks.
:-)
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