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The Big Bands are back!    

Big bands flourished through the Great Depression (the 1930s). 

During World War II jazz was used to lift the morale of American troops.

It also helped to overcome segregation, because many of the most famous big bands were fully integrated by black musicians or mixed. 

They served to spread some cultural patterns all over the world, along with cinema and cartoons.   
 
Big bands provided some great musical standards. Most important: it is fabulous music.


In the cartoon above, Count Basie, Benny Goodman (middle) and Artie Shaw (at the right, also with the clarinet).

Experience jazz in your life!


Now playing

Sy Oliver - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street [1949]
Ozzie Nelson - The Sheik Of Araby [1938]
Fred Waring & Three Waring Girls & Chorus - Dancing In The Dark [1931]
Londown Swing Ork (GB) - Cruising Down The River
The Rhythmic Eight - Diga Diga Doo [1929]
Louis Armstrong - Jeepers Creepers [1939]
Judy Garland - Get Happy (film 'Summer Stock') [1950]
Billy Cotton Ork (GB) - Alexander´s Ragtime Band [1933]
Fats Waller - Sugar Blues [1935]
Ink Spots - Do I Worry [1941]