Big bands & Swing

[Dorsetmike]

Is this the best place to run this thread, or should it have a separate sub forum?

I like this treatment, a piece not often heard in this sort of arrangement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgVNq1EQ2XU

More Elgart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgVNq1EQ2

The orchestra was still around in 2011 under the direction of drummer Russ Dorsey

 

[stu]

Here is a Les Brown favourite of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2xKwzI7MbJw

 

[stu]

Here's a very WILD fun version of Flying Home, with the Harry James Orchestra with Buddy Rich, John Hendricks, Ernie Andrews;
and Harry James doing his Louis Armstrong impression. A crazy get together at a jazz festival.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZgmXOgqCtK0

 

[Dorsetmike]

Marty Paich big band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUuej4EZeNs

14 minutes of Kenton from 1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0dwBEE0r3Q

Squadronnaires in light hearted mood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLKfvoFlWeU

50 minutes of Gershwin by Claude Bolling big band, first mu,ber starts with some good piano followed by a trad front line but with plenty of back up, like the girl singer too in Man I love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDheT1ljLSw