Anybody else kinda dig that "big band" sound?

[short bus president]

Listening to Glenn Miller Orchestra now. Why in the hell didn't this stuff re-emerge as a fad instead of that f*cking obnoxious "swing" crap? This is music even I could almost dance to.

[cherryperry]

1. Thank you for giving me the courage to admit

I love big band music! Definitely danceable . . .

:hi: :thumbsup: :dem:

[Aristus]

2. Always have.

Always will.

That stuff just can't be beat!

[SOteric]

3. Meeee!!!!

I love that stuff, have since I was a teenager. I have all the hits of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller all the greats.

[buddhamama]

4. since i was a little girl

i've listened and loved the stuff.

i have a lot big band albums passed down from grandparents.

[Iris]

5. when we were on our honeymoon,

"In the Mood" came on while we were eating breakfast at the inn we stayed at. An older couple said to us, "I'll bet you don't know what song that is" and my husband got a big grin on his face and said, "Glenn Miller. "In the Mood." (My in-laws were a bit older when my husband was born, so he sort of grew up listening to that music!)

[AnnabelLee]

6. Oh yeah

Glenn Miller, Les Brown & His Band of Renown, Benny Goodman, the Dorseys, Kay Kyser, the list is way too long to put here.

[CanuckAmok]

13. And Stan Kenton...Gotta have Stan Kenton... n/t

[Ein]

7. Oh yeah!

The various big bands of Buddy Rich have given me many hours of entertainment (and many nights of dreaming I had chops like that man).

RIP Bud

[Lady Freedom]

8. yeah, its cool

[TNDemo]

9. Moonlight Serenade.

The best. 'Nuff said.

[DemoTex]

10. I was a big band bassist in the '60s.

But I don't know where you differentiate between "big band" and "swing". Count Basie was considered "swing" by some, I think, but he was much nearer big jazz band in reality. We used the formatic 5 sax, 4 trumpet, 4 trombone, piano, bass, drum, and female vocalist scheme. My band was an old, established college band (The Auburn Knights) with a stable of famous alum, including Toni Tennille and Bobbi Gentry. Our "book" was extensive, the best in the south perhaps, with Basie, Glen Miller, Neil Hefti, Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington and many other tunes standing out.

[short bus president]

15. You're right, of course.

And I wondered when someone'd call me on that.

I'd place swing as sort of an offshoot of big band (like the power ballad as an offshoot of heavy metal, to employ perhaps the most horrid analogy in the history of DU). It should be easily possible to hate the narrower category in its own right, under the established SC standard for porn, that I know "swing" when I hear it.

[trof]

17. The Auburn Knights?

Like "War Eagle" Auburn?
Wow.
http://www.auburnknights.com/
I've liked big band, bb swing, and bb jazz since I was old enough to know what it was.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. Night and Day...

Night and day
you are the one,
Only you
beneath the moon
And under the sun.
Whether near to me or far,
It's no matter,
darling, where you are
I think of you
Night and day.

Day and night
Why is it so,
That this longing for you follows
where-ever I go?
In the roaring traffic's boom,
In the silence of my lonely room,
I think of you,
Night and day.

Night and day
under the hide of me
There's an
Oh, such a hungry yearning,
burning inside of me.
And its torment won't be through
'Til you let me spend my life
making love to you,
Day and night,
Night and day.

~sigh~

[44wax]

12. I lean toward the Stan Kenton/Buddy Rich and Ellington/Basie/Fletcher H

I got to play big band charts in high school with some really good kids. We played loud fast and we swung.

[DemoTex]

16. Buddy Rich rules!

What a driving rhythm! Heart and soul in the drums. Sex and life in the skins. What hands. What feet. Better drummer? Maybe Gene Kruppa. Maybe.


Buddy Rich and Gene Kruppa

[DrFunkenstein]

14. Seek These Out

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Duke Ellington
The Carnegie Hall Concerts (January 1943)

Make sure you get the year right. He's got a bunch of albums recorded there.

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This is the 1956 concert. Totally worth the price for Paul Gonsalves' 27-chorus tenor solo alone!

[radwriter0555]

18. that's all I listen to anymore. 24/7 that stuff is on outside in my pagoda

and then always on in the bg inside.

And I'm a hot chick, barely scraping middle age. Go figure.

[tarkus]

19. No, they don't. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

20. I like Duke Ellington and all the other big bands But,

I love to listen to the Cherry Poppin Daddys too! My granny had all the good stuff on 78s and a crank up record player! When she got too old, I cranked her record player when I went over to granny's house! She'd always say, "While Granny Played Her Victorola Someone Spiked Her Coka-Cola", and then she'd laugh!(think she spiked her own)