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Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929) (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band) Ray Anthony (born 1922) Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971) Georgie Auld (1919-1990) (Georgie Auld and His Orchestra, Georgie Auld and His Hollywood All Stars)
While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos.
The following is a list of big band musicians This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
His civilian band, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra was one of the most popular and successful bands of the 20th century and the big band era. [2] [3] [4] Miller and two others died at sea when their plane crashed into the English Channel on the flight headed from England to France on Friday, December 15, 1944.
Pages in category "Big band bandleaders" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 260 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) [1] was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947, but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983.
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) [1] was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era.He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. [2]
From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music." [1]