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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

Eddie Cantor - Okay Toots [1934]
Pasadena Roof Ork (GB) - If I Had You
Hazel Scott - The Man I Love (1945)
Nat Shilkret Ork - If You're Not Kissing Me [1930]
Erskine Hawkins - Tuxedo Junction
Jackie Gleason Orchestra - Tenderly
Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather [1933]
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Choo Choo Cha Boogie [1946]
Fletcher Henderson - Limehouse Blues [1934]
Swingadelic & John Bauers - Too Marvelous For Words