UPPER EAST SIDE BIG BAND, swing and big-band jazz. 7: 30-10 p.m. From Wordnik.com. [Fairfax County community events, July 1 to 8, 2010] Reference
SMITH: Musician and composer and now big-band leader, Dan Deacon. From Wordnik.com. [Making Manic Dance Music, With Lasting Effects] Reference
Mr. Smith writes about jazz and the big-band era for the Journal. From Wordnik.com. [A Vocal Group at the Top of Its Class] Reference
Draw: The only black-tie gala with a lecture and big-band dancing!. From Wordnik.com. [Parties you should have crashed: American Enterprise Institute gala with Gen. David Petraeus] Reference
He played it loud during the big-band heydays of the last century. From Wordnik.com. [Tito Puente's Self-Titled Masterwork Examined] Reference
“You know, I got sick of big-band cliches,” Ms. Schneider said. From Wordnik.com. [The Maria Schneider Reality Show] Reference
He moderates discussions like a big-band leader, improvising as necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Holbrooke of South Asia] Reference
This is quite different from the smooth, crooning, alto-sax manner of the big-band era. From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin's Ragtime Band] Reference
He loves big-band music, a bracing round on the links, all-night card games with the guys. From Wordnik.com. [Young Fogies] Reference
When this six-song EP was released in 2003, the big-band singer wasn't as popular as he is now. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday CDs: Music] Reference
Mr. Schrager said that the 40's (i.e., the big-band style and swing music) had always inspired him. From Wordnik.com. [Artful Dodgers] Reference
But the Arbuthnot-by-the-Sea had its own band, which imitated in a cold, Maine way the big-band sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
To honor the big-band tradition, he persists in being one of the few big jazz-band leaders still touring. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Frank Sinatra] Reference
The Icelandic pop star's phenomenal voice can swing with big-band orchestras or bounce with street-smart DJs. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Life Of Pop Stars] Reference
Her first ArtistShare release, Concert in the Garden, won a Grammy Award for best big-band jazz album in 2005. From Wordnik.com. [The Maria Schneider Reality Show] Reference
This collection is a source of light that flashes between chivalrous Americana and old-soul big-band elegance. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-Nine] Reference
Incredibly, he, too, is available, and agrees to play for us with his big-band ensemble, the Symmetric Orchestra. From Wordnik.com. [Showtime in the Sahara] Reference
An 18-piece ensemble from New York (the orchestra of Jim Valli, a Clinton rep confirmed) performed big-band music. From Wordnik.com. [Chelsea Clinton, Marc Mezvinsky wedding details: "Like a family wedding"] Reference
Danced to big-band swing tunes, jitterbuggers flung their partners over their backs, under their legs, and into the air. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
The infectious big-band music is lush and full of vitality, the dancing has verve, and Puerto Rico never looked so good. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Murder and Medieval Melodrama] Reference
His five albums have evolved into a sophisticated hybrid of Latin, big-band jazz and funk, propelled by contemporary beats. From Wordnik.com. [A Last Summer Suite] Reference
He credits the influence of Maria Schneider, a renowned jazz composer and big-band leader, for inspiring his career choice. From Wordnik.com. [Not Your Grandpa's Big Bands] Reference
It all comes from a kind of big-band, I mean marching-band society, and it blares and it proclaims, but it doesn't really affirm. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: Yehudi Wyner's life in music: composer with piano hands] Reference
Garcia's father, a big-band musician, named him after Jerome Kern; his grandparents tuned in the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night. From Wordnik.com. [Requiem For The Dead] Reference
For a critic with such a renowned ear, Adorno was stubbornly tone-deaf to the difference between big-band mediocrities and Duke Ellington. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism and Its Malcontent] Reference
Miller professed to love jazz and hate rock 'n' roll, yet he did more than anyone to steer American listeners away from the big-band sound. From Wordnik.com. [They Sang Along With Mitch] Reference
Yes, you still have to wear the big-band uniforms or those god-awful tuxes, but with those outfits comes a copy of "Infernal Machines" or "Now.". From Wordnik.com. [Jazz Standards That Aren’t] Reference
The Mercury records weren't what she'd expected -- the label saddled her with big-band arrangements -- and she sat out the contract after making two of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Ballads Of Shirley Horn] Reference
Her career spanned so many decades and so many movements, from the big-band era of the '30s to bebop in the' 40s into the golden age of the standard in the '50s. From Wordnik.com. [The Scat Lady] Reference
A onetime student of big-band visionary Bob Brookmeyer, Argue himself seems a natural product of an era in which genres can be shuffled with ease on iPod playlists. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz Standards That Aren’t] Reference
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