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Big Bands/Swing

Started by Janet_Girl, January 19, 2010, 09:08:43 PM

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Janet_Girl

I really enjoy the Big Band/Swing era.   Yeah I know WWII, but the music is just so cool.  And I am a Glenn Miller fan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs#noexternalembed

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tekla

Glenn Miller may have been one of the most missed of all the casualties of that war.  That being said, I'm still a big fan of Benny Goodman and Claude Thornhill too.
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Janet_Girl

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tekla

People ask me what the best live thing I've ever heard and I don't even have to think, it's Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing) from the January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall.  Benny, Harry James and Jess Stacy were pronominal, but Gene Kruppa gave a lesson in playing drums that night that no one has touched yet.
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Janet_Girl

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tekla

Yeah, that song, but the live version, from that show, the 12:02 minute version.  It's on a Sony release I think.
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V M

A friend of mine played Clarinet. Benny Goodman was his hero

He also played all kinds of big band, swing, jazz and dixieland stuff. Last I heard from him he was giggin' in Hawaii
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Janet_Girl

That doesn't seem to compute.  Big Band and Hawaii.  The lucky bum.  ;D
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V M

Big Band music is world wide. If you get hooked into the circuit, your gonna travel

I also remember him often playing "In The Mood" - Glen Miller rather often
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Janet_Girl

Of course, if the is a demand then you go where the gig is.  It just I never really thought about Big Band and the island.  But then again there was Pearl Harbor.  So I guess I never really thought about it.

Does he play in a hotel?
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tekla

The only trouble with running a big band is that they are big, and a gig is a gig, and the money stays pretty constant - so in the end that just kinda less for everyone.  Still, you do get to play real music, which is something most of the people I work with can't say.
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BunnyBee

Quote from: tekla on January 19, 2010, 11:13:52 PM
The only trouble with running a big band is that they are big, and a gig is a gig, and the money stays pretty constant - so in the end that just kinda less for everyone.  Still, you do get to play real music, which is something most of the people I work with can't say.
Hm... kinda sounds like fun.  Maybe I should dust off the sax, hehe.  Inches of dust by now I'm sure =/.
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Janet_Girl

There is just some thing so universal about the Big Band sound.  Something so up lifting.  People know when Janet cleans because it is up load.  ;D
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tekla

Yeah, it's kind of funny people come over to see me and the first time they somehow expect me to have this huge rock collection, when in reality I don't.  Mostly I have lots of classical string trios, quartets and lots of cool jazz (1955-1965 or so)  Really can't listen to enough Miles and 'Trane.  But I have a bunch of Big Band.  I love the Goodman live, its just the awesome sauce, and I have a huge spot in my heart for April in Paris, by Count Basie, perhaps the last really great big band record (recorded in '55 and '56), but a decade or so this guy found all these old V-discs that Miller recorded with the Army Air Force Band during the war, one is a 3 disc set called The Secret Broadcasts, the other The Lost Recordings.  Check them out.
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Janet_Girl

I will.  It would be nice to heard something that would sort of be new.
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tekla

It will sound very new.  Not only did he have an all star band, he also had something he always wanted but could never aford, a sting section.  And, there are lots of classic Miller tracks, but there is a lot of popular stuff to, stuff you've never heard him perform.

Here is a listing of both
http://www.parabrisas.com/m_millerg2.php
http://www.parabrisas.com/m_millerg3.php
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Janet_Girl

I have to try and find them.  Thank You Kat.
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tekla

Yeah, I do what I can, but those are pretty awesome, so its easy to recommenced them.
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V M

I became involved in other things for a few years and unfortunately lost contact with my friend

When I got back into music I was hanging out with various rock bands and playing guitar and singing

Oh, I started out on trombone in Jr High. that's how I met my clarinet friend
Plus he lived across the street
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Tammy Hope

I suppose it makes me kind of shallow but my favorite BB music is actually in the movie Xanadu

there was something about the way they worked this together that I thought was outstanding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9GdyGD5e4#noexternalembed

and this is just classic, IMO, even if it was from a cheesy movie instead of the 40's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vsfpw3qKKc&feature=related#

Yes it was an tremendously flawed film but it's amazing how many really wonderful moments there are within that pile of mistakes...

But like I said - aficionados will consider this a pretty shallow interest in the genre...

Rightly so.
Disclaimer: due to serious injury, most of my posts are made via Dragon Dictation which sometimes butchers grammar and mis-hears my words. I'm also too lazy to closely proof-read which means some of my comments will seem strange.


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