Please Help! What genre of jazz is this?

Corno Dolce

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Hello redgreenpaper,

Imo its classic *Big Band Jazz* - As Duke Ellington used to say: It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing*. Maybe my many more illustrious colleagues on this forum have a better terminology for it than I do.

Cheers,

CD :tiphat::tiphat::tiphat:
 
Dorsetmike

Dorsetmike

Member
Big band for sure, leaning more towards Jazz than swing though in my opinion. The 4 trumpets cerainly got a work out!!
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Would'n it be lovely eh, Big band bash those were the day's :)
 

OLDUDE

New member
Hi RGB,
The 1st one sounds like largescale Bebop to me, I was waiting for Charlie Parker to return at any moment (Frankly I hate the stuff).
The 2nd was what we knew as Big Band Swing in olden times (Basie for example) and to be honest not the best I've heard.

Cheers John (and welcome to the jazz forum - we seem to be getting a lot of new blood, which is great)
 
Dorsetmike

Dorsetmike

Member
Ted Heath was more a show band when I saw him in Bournemouth in 1954, especially when compared to Ellington, Basie and Woody Herman. I saw all 3 of them at the same venue but about 20 years later, and they were still swinging.
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Well Heath could swing too, I am trying to think of another Brit Big Band??
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JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
CD Now we are talking, the old Brass bands, a great institution for a young lad to get started, I recently had a spell in Hospital and the Salvation Army Band performed on Sunday morns, probably the first time the patients had heard live music. it really lifts the spirit
 
Contratrombone64

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
by the way "jazz" is a genre, so I guess the question more accutely is: "what sub-genre of jazz is this ..."? Not sure and I AM a pedant.
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
It can open a can of worms when we get into definitions !!Thinks!! why would you put worms into a can.
 
Corno Dolce

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Right on, J.H.C.

I lovingly recall a concert in which Black Dyke Mills Band plus some friends performed Holst's *Planets* - It was a sonic feast for the ears. With the development of the Compensating Valve System for brass instruiments even those with a very rudimentary understanding of music could play very beautifully. It must have been a thrill for the mill workers who participated in the yearly Brass Band Competitions and all those who listened. For even the members of the aristocracy flocked to those festivals to hear good music. In all, the Brass Band Movement was a societal institution where everyone could unite around music.

Lord knows how many first prizes Black Dyke and Grimethorpe Colliery took home...They excelled at their musicianship because they practised as if their life depended upon it. Of course, there must have been synergistic effects i.e. when the musicianship of the millworkers drew attention to both the mills products and the town/city/region - Everybody won!!!
 
JHC

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I think BB music is not appreciated by a lot of the classical followers, I love the "Canadian Brass' are you personally familiar with Black Dyke Mills Band ?? please forgive if I am getting too personal
 
Dorsetmike

Dorsetmike

Member
J.H.C. said:
Well Heath could swing too, I am trying to think of another Brit Big Band??
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Joe Loss; Ken MacIntosh; Jools Holland; Don Lusher (mostly ex TH); Sid Lawrence; Squadronnaires; [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Ambrose; Ivy Benson; John Dankworth; Eric Delaney; Teddy Foster; Roy Fox; Geraldo; Nat Gonella; Jack Hylton; Vic Lewis; Oscar Rabin and Harry Davis; Harry Roy; Lew Stone; George Chisholm[/FONT]; Cyril Stapleton; Stanley Black; Tito Burns; Bily Cotton; Harry Davidson; Debbie Curtis; Ray Ellington; Carroll Gibbons; Henry Hall; Jack Hylton; Jack Jackson; Ray Noble; Harry Parry; Edmundo Ros; Victor Silvester; Debroy Somers; Lew Stone; Billy Ternent; Eric Winstone;

to name a few off the top of me head (and Google).

http://wapedia.mobi/en/List_of_British_big_band_leaders

The site gives some background on most of those listed and a link to this site

http://www.debbiecurtis.co.uk/

The band has potential, if they had some decent arrangements and got rid of the bird prancing about in front of them :crazy::grin::rolleyes:
 
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