Big Band music.

Bugman · Jul 11, 2011

My parents were of the Great Depression-WWII generation. I grew up listening
to this music and I've never lost my love for it. I'm wondering if we have any other fans here.

Can't Get Out of This Mood, Kay Kyser and His Orchestra.

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The Billboard March, Les Brown and His Band of Renown.

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Marie, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra.

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kered · Jul 11, 2011

I like a bunch of these old tunes!

TklDuo-Drew · Jul 11, 2011

This must've been a great band to see live:

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Drew

Bugman · Jul 11, 2011

kered said:
I like a bunch of these old tunes!

It was great music then, and still is in my opinion. Timeless really, and so evocative of that time.

Stardust, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra.

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Bugman · Jul 11, 2011

TklDuo-Drew said:
This must've been a great band to see live:

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Drew

I love it, and this band is new to me. Many thanks my friend. 😀

Knox The Hatter · Jul 11, 2011

I LOVE this stuff.

Rusty Shackleford · Jul 12, 2011

GREAT thread man... I can find no one in my age group truly into this magnificent stuff.

The Dorsey brothers, Benny Goodman, Gil Evans... so hard to find anywhere these days.

In fact, over the weekend a few friends of mine and myself ended up at a youngish bar at around two in the morning Sat night, and had to put up with whatever crap kids (haha I'm 24) these days consider music; I turned and remarked to my friend, "Can you imagine showing up to an after-hours venue seventy years ago, finding a beautiful woman [as we were all trying to do there, natch] and trying to get with her to the sounds of a big band, instead of this synth-garbage?"

New York is great for jazz, but Big Bands are hard to come by.

Bugman · Jul 12, 2011

Rusty Shackleford said:
GREAT thread man... I can find no one in my age group truly into this magnificent stuff.

The Dorsey brothers, Benny Goodman, Gil Evans... so hard to find anywhere these days.

In fact, over the weekend a few friends of mine and myself ended up at a youngish bar at around two in the morning Sat night, and had to put up with whatever crap kids (haha I'm 24) these days consider music; I turned and remarked to my friend, "Can you imagine showing up to an after-hours venue seventy years ago, finding a beautiful woman [as we were all trying to do there, natch] and trying to get with her to the sounds of a big band, instead of this synth-garbage?"

New York is great for jazz, but Big Bands are hard to come by.

Thanks Rusty, always nice coming across a fellow fan. Sadly the Big Band sound was in decline by the late 1950s and the emergence of Rock 'n' Roll in that decade sealed its fate with younger people. Don't get me wrong, I love classic rock music.

Part 1 of Rhapsody In Blue, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra with George Gershwin himself at piano. Does it get any better?

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Edit: I know this is not really Big Band music by strict definition, but I like it, and its my thread. 🙂

ticklishscribe · Jul 12, 2011

Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade."

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ticklishscribe · Jul 12, 2011

Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade."

paracarl44 · Jul 12, 2011

Glenn MIller.

I still have a VHS tape which aired on PBS where they did the many songs that made Glenn Miller popular.

ticklishdanny · Jul 8, 2012

No Benny Goodman? Sing Sing Sing is a great tune

PiedPiper · Jul 9, 2012

I'm with you on this one, Bugs. My dad had been sort of the "entertainment sergeant" for an officer's club during WW2, and he got to actually book a lot of these guys for their shows,..... got a photo of him sitting on the floor leaning up against a wall (plastered) sharing a bottle with a young Louis Armstrong,... I've been close to it all my life. Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five were perhaps my favorites. And and the muted trumpet style of Clyde McCoy (The Sugar Blues) was certainly a unique sound.

Bugman · Jul 9, 2012

PiedPiper said:
I'm with you on this one, Bugs. My dad had been sort of the "entertainment sergeant" for an officer's club during WW2, and he got to actually book a lot of these guys for their shows,..... got a photo of him sitting on the floor leaning up against a wall (plastered) sharing a bottle with a young Louis Armstrong,... I've been close to it all my life. Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five were perhaps my favorites. And and the muted trumpet style of Clyde McCoy (The Sugar Blues) was certainly a unique sound.

You have a nice little piece of family history there. And since this thread is back, how about some Tommy Dorsey.

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teamtickleguy · Jul 9, 2012

Hi all,

I have had the pleasure of playing in a number of big bands (I am a trombonist) and I think the whole sound and atmosphere of big band gigs and bands is brilliant. It's a unique style of music, in the sense that it's not only the root of lots of music that has emerged since (twelve bar blues was the foundation of much of the big band music, as it was for early rock n roll, then the Beatles and still features today), but it's also remarkable that it became such a huge genre with such a vast array of stars and memorable tunes, given that much of the material essentially had the same musical blueprint. I think this is partly down to the fact that they were real musicians, playing real tunes, with real stories in the lyrics that the listeners of that era could identify with. It was also a very different live gig to those people go to today, with dancing very much an emphasis and the significance of it being a distraction from the war cannot be ignored either.

I would love to be able to jive and boogie to some of this music, the moves are probably not as hard as they look, but to dance properly to big band music would be wonderful - it is such fun.

BBC radio 2 have some good big band shows Sunday and Monday evenings I think.

TTG

milagros317 · Jul 10, 2012

While my parents played big band music (from the 1940's mostly) often when I was growing up, I never really liked it much.

Big Band music.

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