The Big Band Reader

Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles

William E Studwell, Mark Baldin (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2000
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-0915-9 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Take a walk down memory lane with The Big Band Reader!Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller were musical masters of their eras, enchanting and romancing audiences with their timeless classics. Relive these wonderful songs and memories through The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles, a unique and exciting collection of over 140 songs from over 70 bands that are categorized by themes, preferred numbers, and top songs! Paying tribute to better known swing bands, sweet bands (ensembles favoring softer, more sentimental numbers), and some unheralded bands (good ensembles that did not receive much attention or did not have a well-known leader), this book offers music enthusiasts up to four biographical essays relating to specific groups and their popular hits, giving you historical and informative facts about the songs and the people who performed them. Nostalgic and entertaining, The Big Band Reader is a one-of-a-kind book that provides you with specific details and research about your most cherished songs and their composers, such as:

The Artie Shaw Orchestra, well-known for their classic hit “Begin the Beguine,” by composer and lyricist Cole Porter
The Benny Goodman Orchestra and their crowd favorite “And the Angels Sing,” written and composed by Johnny Mercer
The Billy Eckstine Orchestra's well-loved songs, including “Prisoner of Love,” written by Leo Robin and “A Cottage for Sale,” written by Larry Conley and composed by Willard Robison
“Day in Day Out,” with words and music by Johnny Mercer and Rube Bloom, which was a favorite of three big bands orchestras, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, and Bob Crosby
Cab Calloway of the Cab Calloway Orchestra, along with Jack Palmer, and their hit “Jumpin’Jive” Thorough and fascinating, The Big Band Reader includes an appendix of the big bands arranged by themes to help you find a desired song or group. This remarkable reference will enable you to walk down memory lane and reminisce about the unforgettable songs of swing and its composers.

William E Studwell, Mark Baldwin

Contents

Preface
The Better-Known Swing Bands
Artie Shaw
Begin the Beguine
Frenesi
Summit Ridge Drive
Benny Goodman
And the Angels Sing
Let's Dance
Moonglow
Sing, Sing, Sing
Billy Eckstine
Prisoner of Love
Without a Song
Bob Crosby
Day In--Day Out
In a Little Gypsy Tea Room
Bunny Berigan
I Can't Get Started
When Yuba Plays the Rumba on His Tuba
Cab Calloway
Jumpin' Jive
Minnie the Moocher
Charlie Barnet
Cherokee
Skyliner
Charlie Spivak
Linda
My Devotion
Chick Webb
A-Tisket A-Tasket
Stompin' at the Savoy
Claude Thornhill
Loch Lomond
Snowfall
Clyde McCoy
Sugar Blues
Count Basie
Blue and Sentimental
One O'Clock Jump
Open the Door, Richard
Sugar
The Dorsey Brothers
Chasing Shadows
Lost in a Fog
When I Take My Sugar to Tea
Duke Ellington
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Satin Doll
Take the “A” Train
Erskine Hawkins
Tuxedo Junction
Frankie Carle
Oh What It Seemed to Be
Rumors Are Flying
Gene Krupa
Boogie Blues
Let Me Off Uptown
Glen Gray
Blue Moon
Smoke Rings
Glenn Miller
Chattanooga Choo Choo
In the Mood
Little Brown Jug
Moonlight Serenade
Harry James
Ciribiribin
I've Heard That Song Before
Sleepy Lagoon
You Made Me Love You
Henry Busse
Hot Lips
Jan Savitt
Make Believe Island
720 in the Books
Jimmie Lunceford
The Organ Grinder's Swing
Rhythm Is Our Business
Jimmy Dorsey
Besame Mucho
Contrasts
So Rare
John Kirby
Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Undecided
Larry Clinton
Deep Purple
My Reverie
Les Brown
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio
Sentimental Journey
Lionel Hampton
After You've Gone
Flying Home
Ray Anthony
At Last
The Bunny Hop
Russ Morgan
Pocketful of Dreams
You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
Si Zentner
Lazy River
Stan Kenton
Artistry in Rhythm
City of Glass
Tampico
Ted Heath
Listen to My Music
That Lovely Weekend
Ted Weems
Heartaches
Somebody Stole My Gal
Teddy Wilson
You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming
Tommy Dorsey
I'll Never Smile Again
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Marie
Opus One
Will Bradley
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
High on a Windy Hill
Woody Herman
Caledonia
Early Autumn
Woodchopper's Ball
The Sweet Bands
Ben Bernie
Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams
Sweet Georgia Brown
Dick Jurgens
Careless
Eddy Duchin
I Won't Dance
My Twilight Dream
Freddy Martin
I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts
Tonight We Love
Guy Lombardo
Boo-Hoo
Coquette
Hal Kemp
Got a Date with an Angel
Horace Heidt
Deep in the Heart of Texas
I'll Love You in My Dreams
Isham Jones
I'll See You in My Dreams
Wabash Blues
Jan Garber
A Melody from the Sky
You're Breaking My Heart
Kay Kyser
Three Little Fishes
Lawrence Welk
Don't Sweetheart Me
Leo Reisman
The Continental
Paradise
Paul Whiteman
Whispering
Wonderful One
Sammy Kaye
Daddy
Harbor Lights
Shep Fields
Did I Remember?
Wayne King
Beautiful Love
The Waltz You Saved for Me
Xavier Cugat
Brazil
The Breeze and I
Some Unheralded Bands
Bennie Moten
Moten Swing
Benny Carter
Kansas City Suite
When the Lights Are Low
Billy Strayhorn
Lush Life
Don Redman
Chant of the Weed
Cherry
Fletcher Henderson
Christopher Columbus
Henderson Stomp
Gus A

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 216 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	0-7890-0915-3 / 0789009153
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-0915-9 / 9780789009159
Zustand	Neuware