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the demand for studio and stage orchestras as backups for popular vocalists, and in radio and television broadcasts. Ability to adapt performing styles to various situations was an essential skill among these bands-for-hire, with a somewhat sedated version of swing in common use for backing up vocalists. The resurgent commercial success of
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Swing bands and sales continued to decline from 1953 to 1954. In 1955, a list of top recording artists from the previous year was publicly released. The list revealed that big band sales had decreased since the early 1950s. However, big band music saw a revival in the 1950s and 1960s. One impetus was
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not affected by the ban. These labels had limited distribution centered in large urban markets, which tended to limit the size of the ensembles with which recording could be a money-making proposition. Another blow fell on the market for dance-oriented swing in 1944 when the federal government levied
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Ellington expressed dissatisfaction with the creative state of swing music; within a few years he and other bandleaders would be delving into more ambitious, and less danceable, forms of orchestral jazz and the creative forefront for soloists would be moving into smaller ensembles and
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Goodman Orchestra in 1941 for a two-year stint, quickly becoming its star attraction on its biggest hits. Some big bands were moving away from the swing styles that dominated the late 1930s, for both commercial and creative reasons. Some of the more commercial big bands catered to more
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to each other. The level of improvisation that the audience might expect varied with the arrangement, song, band, and band-leader. Typically included in big band swing arrangements were an introductory chorus that stated the theme, choruses arranged for soloists, and climactic out-choruses. Some
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until record labels agreed to pay royalties to musicians. That stopped recording of instrumental music for major labels for over a year, with the last labels agreeing to new contract terms in
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triumph. At the
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in various combinations of moves. A subculture of jitterbuggers, sometimes growing quite competitive, congregated around ballrooms that featured hot swing music. A dance floor full of jitterbuggers had cinematic appeal; they were sometimes featured in newsreels and movies. Some of the top
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pattern to build a strong, danceable rhythm and provide a musical platform for extended solos. The rhythm-heavy tunes for dancing were called "stomps". The requirement for volume led to continued use of the sousaphone over the string bass with the larger ensembles, which dictated a more
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that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of
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revival started in the late 1930s as a self-conscious re-creation of New Orleans jazz in reaction against the orchestrated style of big band swing. Some swing bandleaders saw opportunities in the Dixieland revival.
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included swing era hits on albums during the early 1970s. In Seattle the New Deal Rhythm Band and the Horns O Plenty Orchestra revived 1930s swing with a dose of comedy behind vocalists Phil "De Basket" Shallat,
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credited the Goldkette band with being the most influential white band in the development of swing music before Benny Goodman's. As a dance music promoter and agent, Goldkette also helped organize and promote
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had both downsized their big bands during the first half of the 1950s, then reconstituted them by 1956. Ellington's venture back into big band jazz was encouraged by its reception at the
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arrangements. Goodman's slot was on after midnight in the East, and few people heard it. It was on earlier on the West Coast and developed the audience that later led to Goodman's
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in Philadelphia in December 1932, the doors were let open to the public who crammed into the theatre to hear the new sound, demanding seven encores from Moten's orchestra.
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bands maintained their popularity during lean years of the late 1940s and beyond, making their mark with innovative arrangements and high-level jazz soloists (
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musicians who became interested in more sophisticated musical ideas, were generally incapable of expressing its core values. In his 1941 autobiography,
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industry released earlier swing recordings from their vaults, increasingly reflecting the popularity of big band vocalists. In 1943
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2787:Saxophonists
2757:Clarinetists
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288:Milton Brown
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205:Woody Herman
201:Tommy Dorsey
197:Jimmy Dorsey
193:Benny Carter
189:Cab Calloway
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3836:Swing music
3718:Quiet storm
3681:Contradanza
3463:New Orleans
3458:Kansas City
3261:Jazz mugham
3256:Azerbaijani
3180:Second line
3175:Rare groove
3161:Jazz theory
3151:Jazz poetry
3136:Contrafacts
3120:Saint Lucia
3100:New Orleans
3032:Strata-East
3007:MPS Records
2937:Cobblestone
2858:Smooth jazz
2848:Jazz fusion
2792:Trombonists
2705:Sacred jazz
2690:Smooth jazz
2623:Jazz fusion
2506:Jazz violin
2486:Jazz guitar
2461:Jam session
2434:Jazz (word)
1664:23 February
1574:Jazz portal
1475:Lavay Smith
1394:the Marcels
1370:Fats Domino
1347:jazz violin
1343:Gypsy swing
1261:Count Basie
1253:Sal Nistico
1249:Gene Ammons
1229:Kai Winding
1213:Stan Kenton
1192:Keely Smith
1176:Dean Martin
1172:Bobby Darin
1148:1950s–1960s
1080:Tony Pastor
1076:Louis Prima
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942:Flying Home
901:W. C. Handy
892:Shep Fields
822:The Suzie Q
777:Let's Dance
738:Shep Fields
704:Moten Swing
668:Cotton Club
656:Jimmy Mundy
638:Early swing
619:Rex Stewart
561:Walter Page
537:Jay McShann
470:string bass
324:Teddy Riley
312:gypsy swing
217:Harry James
185:Count Basie
153:bandleaders
140:Swing music
3830:Categories
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3691:Jump blues
3535:Ethno jazz
3498:Australian
3478:West Coast
3235:Zimbabwean
3075:Copenhagen
2997:Mainstream
2807:Violinists
2797:Trumpeters
2767:Guitarists
2675:Organ trio
2660:Modal jazz
2633:Latin jazz
2613:Gypsy jazz
2511:Vocal jazz
2496:Jazz piano
2102:28 October
2076:28 October
1587:Gypsy jazz
1487:rockabilly
1448:John Holte
1355:Eddie Lang
1351:Joe Venuti
1277:Thad Jones
1273:Buddy Rich
1225:Art Pepper
1052:John Kirby
1014:Gene Ramey
922:Artie Shaw
884:Sammy Kaye
867:and early
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612:Joe Venuti
608:Eddie Lang
521:Jess Stacy
501:Earl Hines
450:sousaphone
417:meter and
375:Don Redman
306:guitarist
302:". Famous
269:jump blues
229:Artie Shaw
209:Earl Hines
89:jump blues
23:Swing time
3671:Acid jazz
3528:Worldwide
3514:Brazilian
3311:Bulgarian
3273:Indo jazz
3223:Cape jazz
3110:North Sea
3065:Cape Town
3052:Festivals
3027:Riverside
3002:Milestone
2927:Blue Note
2922:Bethlehem
2906:post-1950
2878:Standards
2863:Soul jazz
2812:Vocalists
2772:Organists
2744:Musicians
2734:Trad jazz
2695:Soul jazz
2618:Jazz-funk
2606:Punk jazz
2596:Free funk
2591:Free jazz
2586:Folk jazz
2576:Dixieland
2571:Cool jazz
2561:Cape jazz
2476:Jazz bass
2439:Jazz band
2318:Doubleday
2210:701053921
1741:Billboard
1597:Lindy Hop
1554:Lindy hop
1500:'s album
1483:neo-swing
1398:Blue Moon
1380:ballads "
1349:swing of
1309:Bob Wills
1281:Mel Lewis
1241:Zoot Sims
1233:Stan Getz
1131:" by the
1118:called a
1047:Peggy Lee
954:Sy Oliver
906:Dixieland
888:Kay Kyser
818:Lindy Hop
814:jitterbug
762:Swing era
694:in 1931.
650:from the
628:Glen Gray
616:cornetist
544:territory
517:Art Tatum
424:led by a
330:, led by
292:Bob Wills
249:ensembles
165:Lindy Hop
161:swing era
149:big bands
102:Subgenres
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