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In 1985 Ronald Reagan awarded Count Basie the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ............ "I think the band can really swing," Basie had said, " when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter." "If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." ............ God Bless Count Basie

Pardon me, boy Is that the Chattanooga choo choo? (yes yes) Track twenty-nine Boy, you can gimme a shine?

The great song "I want to talk about you" with lyric - John Coltrane did an instrumental version.

Stan Kenton and his Orchestra recorded in London 6 February 1972 Chiapas Stan Kenton, Mike Van, Dennis Noday, Jay Saunders, Ray Brown, Joe Marcinkiewicz, Dick Shearer, Mike Jamieson, Fred Carter, Mike Wallace, Phil Herring, Quin Davis, Richard Torres, Kim Fritzel, Willie Maiden, Chuck Carter, Ramon Lopez, John Worster, John Von Ohlen

A special holiday musical presentation from Union Station in Washington, DC celebrating the service and sacrifices of our nation's World War II veterans and commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war.

James Last had career composing big band music spanning five decadesHad 52 hit records in Britain alone, a total only topped by Elvis PresleyComposed 190 tracks and at his peak was producing two albums a monthDied in Florida after a short illness surrounded by family, promoters said 

This girl has pipes!

These are strange days, when we are told both that tax incentives can transform technologies yet higher taxes will not drag down the economy. So which is it? Do taxes change behavior or not? Of course they do, but often in ways that policy hands never anticipate, let alone intend. Consider, for example, how federal taxes hobbled Swing music and gave birth to bebop. With millions of young men coming home from World War II—eager to trade their combat boots for dancing shoes—the postwar years should have been a boom time for the big bands that had been so wildly...

The last surviving original band member of the Glenn Miller Band has died. Paul Tanner passed away Tuesday afternoon at the Sunrise Living Facility in Carlsbad.

This amazing band played in the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden. This brief video doesn't show the full range of their talent. Click to watch video. Learn more about the band: Click to visit their website.

Hi FR friends, I need a relatively knowledgeable individual to identify a swing/big band track for me. This track was used as a segue between programs by Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRN) during the Korean War. It appears at the end of this Armed Forces Radio Network broadcast of the Jack Benny Show. If you're familiar with playing .MP3 music files, you can download the file at the link below and fast forward to the 24:10 minute mark where the music begins. If someone can name the artist and track title of this song, I'd appreciate it very much. I...

Jazz trumpeter and big-band leader Walter "Maynard" Ferguson, famed for his screaming solos and ability to hit blisteringly high notes, has died at age 78, associates said on Thursday. The Montreal-born Ferguson died on Wednesday at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, California, of kidney and liver failure brought on by an abdominal infection. His four daughters and other family members were at his side when he died. Ferguson started his career at 13 when he performed as a featured soloist with the Canadian Broadcasting Co. Orchestra. He played with several of the great big-band leaders of the 1940s and '50s,...

KCTC 1320 AM, is dropping its big-band and crooner format sometime before Nov. 1 to become Sacramento's Air America talk-radio affiliate. ..."They're turning our music off!" groused Bob Hill, 79. "It's the only music you can understand the words to," added 70-year-old Clyde Cassady. "The musicians they play, like Glenn Miller, are dead now," said Evan Temple, also 70. "I guess they think we're dead, too." Don't even get these guys started on Air America and liberal talk radio. They have enough complaints about losing their only non-subscription radio conduit for the dulcet tones of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and...

The concept of time is self-evident. An hour consists of a certain number of minutes, a day of hours and a year of days. But we rarely think about the fundamental nature of time. Time is passing non-stop, and we follow it with clocks and calendars. Yet we cannot study it with a microscope or experiment with it. And it still keeps passing. We just cannot say what exactly happens when time passes. Time is represented through change, such as the circular motion of the moon around the earth. The passing of time is indeed closely connected to the concept...

rtie Shaw, the jazz clarinetist and big-band leader who successfully challenged Benny Goodman's reign as the King of Swing with his recordings of "Begin the Beguine," "Lady Be Good" and "Star Dust" in the late 1930's, died yesterday at his home in Newbury Park, Calif. He was 94. He apparently died of natural causes, his lawyer, Eddie Ezor, told The Associated Press. In the Royalty of Swing By JOHN S. WILSON Artie Shaw's virtuosity on his instrument, his groups' highly original arrangements and his explosively romantic showmanship made him one of the most danced-to bandleaders of swing and one of...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bandleader and clarinetist Artie Shaw, famed for his recording of "Begin the Beguine" and one of the giants of the swing era of jazz, died on Thursday at age 94, his manager Will Curtis said. A self-declared perfectionist, Shaw put down the clarinet in 1954 and never played it again, saying he could not reach the level of artistry he desired. He had been ill for several years, Curtis said.