[maestro]

Please, enjoy this 'vanity'. Happy New Year 2002!!

[kampeska]

Glenn Miller: Great songs and arraingments, A new distinctive sound coming from a doubling of the 1st saxs' part with a clarinet.

[MVV]

Without a doubt, Tommy Dorsey! And put Frank Sinatra with him and I am in heaven! Ah! The classic sounds of yesteryear and days gone by. . .

[the_doc]

Since I was not even alive during the big band era, I have not heard many big bands live. I heard Bill Basie on his final U.S. tour in the early '80s, however, and he will always be my favorite.

I heard Clark Terry perform with a big band in 1969, but it wasn't really his band. I have heard several other lesser performers in this kind of situation, all of them pretty entertaining, but no one as good as Clark Terry. (He also autographed my calculus book.)

I was raised on classical music and jazz, strictly LP stuff. For jazz, I mostly listened to combos (Brubeck, Mulligan, early Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, etc.), since these were more readily available on record albums. But I really preferred the big bands, especially Count Basie--and after Basie, Duke Ellington.

I also liked Woody Herman's revived orchestra in the '60s, and then Maynard Ferguson. Jimmy Smith, the jazz organist, also put out some really good big band records.

I never got into Buddy Rich for some reason.

[TBP]

I'm too young to have seen any of them live, but I have a bunch of the albums (and a good site for that, BTW, is Primarily A Capella.) IMNHO, the very best of them is the great Glenn Miller. I can listen to Miller all day.

BTW, if you were to pick up the phone and dial (212) PEnnsylvania 6-5000, even today you would reach teh Pennsylvania Hotel in New York, where Miller played in NY.

[Revolting cat!]

Well, since no one has mentioned Louis Jordan and his Timpany Five, the inventors of rock'n'roll some argue, that leaves only one other choice, Lyle Lovett and His Large Band.

[real saxophonist]

Didn't we just do this?

And no, I really don't play saxophone, never played with Billy Taylor or Cab Calloway or Anita O'Day, never soloed at the Savannah Jazz Festival, and have no idea who Maynard Ferguson is, or why Alamo-Girl thinks I do...

[lawgirl]

U2--they're about as big as you can get. oh wait........

[Doc On The Bay]

Glenn Miller---the "rest" are but pale Imitators!!!

Doc

[maestro]

Big Band 'Bump'.
:-)