Your 10 Best... Big Bands

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Your 10 BestA new and regular

feature of the DHT will be YOUR TEN BEST, and we encourage you to be a part of it. Today, longtime

DHT editor and noted local brass musician, tells us his 10 Best Big Band leaders.Bill says: The Big

Band or Swing era ran roughly from 1935-45. I grew up on them on radio as a pre-schooler, probably by aural osmosis. They remain alive and relatively well today: Think the Composite High or GPRC jazz bands. In no particular

order:

Offical Colour Key(as of July 4, 2011)

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Stardust

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In The Mood, Chattanooga Choo-Choo

Glenn Miller

Stompin’ at the Savoy, Big John Special, King Porter Stomp – not to mention his trios, quartets and sextets

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Mood Indigo, Take the A Train, Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me

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Song of India, I’m Getting Sentimental Over You, Marie

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So Rare, Green Eyes

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(first to cross racial lines and the stage-setter for the Big Bands): Rhapsody in Blue, Hot Lips

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(ya gotta have a fiddle in the band! Big Band purists may disagree but fie on them): San Antonio Rose

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(born in London, Ont.). Schmaltzy, yes, but immensely popular and long-lived: Auld Lang Syne, Harbour Lights

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