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Favorite 'Big' Bands??
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Posted on 12/31/2001 6:23:58 PM PST by maestro
What 'Big' Bands have you enjoyed, 'live'??
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To: chnsmok
Everything and everyone 'counts'!
(It all adds up!!)
Thanks for 'sharing'!
(Nothing like that 'Leslie' sound.)
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posted on
12/31/2001 6:55:04 PM PST
by
maestro
To: maestro
I saw Buddy Rich and his band. They were very good.
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posted on
12/31/2001 6:56:44 PM PST
by
Huck
To: Huck
Yup, Buddy Rich and his band sure were good! VERY!
:-)
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posted on
12/31/2001 6:59:00 PM PST
by
maestro
To: chnsmok
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.
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:06:35 PM PST
by
WIMom
To: maestro
My dad plays a mean radio! LOL!
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:06:43 PM PST
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WIMom
To: maestro
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
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:09:23 PM PST
by
Huck
To: chnsmok
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Probably doesn't qualify. But Brian Setzer's Orchestra does.
To: Vince Ferrer
Brian Setzer's Orchestra ? More...?
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:30:19 PM PST
by
maestro
To: maestro
"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.
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:33:38 PM PST
by
okie01
To: maestro
The Don Ellis Orchestra !! Maynard Ferguson's big band of the 1970's and 1980's!!
To: WIMom
"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.
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:36:55 PM PST
by
okie01
To: maestro
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.
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:42:02 PM PST
by
kylaka
To: maestro
Fletcher Henderson.
Whoops, just showed my age.
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:46:16 PM PST
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Octar
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To: kylaka
Glenn Miller... I wish I could have listened live! How did Rock replace the sound of jazz or band?
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:54:06 PM PST
by
chnsmok
To: maestro
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.
To: Octar
'78's' and radio!!! Hotels and Ballrooms!!!
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:58:34 PM PST
by
maestro
To: Vince Ferrer
Thank you!
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posted on
12/31/2001 8:00:13 PM PST
by
maestro
To: kylaka
Right! Nothing like today's technology!
Thanks!
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posted on
12/31/2001 8:03:04 PM PST
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maestro
To: JoJo the Clown
For sure!!
I too was there!!
Thanks.
:-)
"Power" and "Ideas".
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posted on
12/31/2001 8:05:52 PM PST
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maestro
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