Big Bands

My step father was a huge big band jazz guy (WWII Vet). Raised in the depression. I was stuck in the back of the car as a kid subjected to this music.... Now I love it, respect it etc. I'm not an abstract jazz listener at all but the big band stuff is good.

I played Alto sax through middle school and part of high school, first chair for most of it. Then I discovered partying and girls.....

The Brain Setzer orchestra was pretty good as well, more recently.
 
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Not a big band, but this is what I think of listening to these.



 
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Not a big band but an awesome cover of Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name. Heavy Horns killing it!

 
CZfool68 said:
My Dad played clarinet and saxaphone in a band when we was young. I was raised on the Lawrence Freaking Welk Show.

I have still not forgiven him for that. šŸ˜”
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Heh. My grandmother would have ripped out the beating heart from anyone smack-talking Lawrence Welk. :eek:
 
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Sp00ks said:
I'm not sure he can stand up to Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman but for a more modern artist, I think he does ok.

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Who knew! @Geezer is a swinger!

Wasn't going to sign and then saw this thread. Brian Setzer came to mind. Lead singer for The Stray Cats for those not familiar. The story I heard was that he heard some guys from a well known big band in LA playing around in one of the guys garages that he lived near. Went over and asked to sit in. They all thought he would be a slouch since all they knew was that he was the lead singer and guitarist in a Rock a Billy band. Blew their minds. He actually played the baritone as a kid and took up the guitar, knew his music. He ended up buying out the contracts for the big band they were affiliated with. He plays period correct guitars, has quite a collection. That's the story IIRC anyway.

I played big band in college. Bass Trombone in jazz band and Tuba in wind ensemble and jazz band, and Flute in a small combo we put together. The big band played a concert and I hit all three all in one night. The band leader was a freak. He liked to throw in some modern crazy stuff along with the old classics.
 
I'm truly surprised that we have a lot of big band fans here. I'm a fan of most any kind of music. My iPod had a range from bluegrass/old time music to Five Finger Death Punch.
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
I saw what was left of the Dorsey Band in Florence in the late '70s...great stuff....If you can listen to The Boogey Woogey Bugle Boy of Company B and Not tap your toe...you must be dead.
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My wife and I were in the Big Apple for a meeting and a show. Got to dance on the big dance floor in front of a big band (think Ricky Ricardo and the Babaloo Club) in The Rainbow Room on top of Rockefeller Plaza. Dinner too. She had her new little black dress and all. (That club had that name way beforeā€¦.)
 
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