swing band
Big jazz orchestra
A swing band is a large jazz ensemble, typically featuring brass, woodwinds, and rhythm sections, that plays swing music—the danceable, rhythmically driving style that dominated American popular music from the mid-1930s through the 1940s.
Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington led famous swing bands.
The swing band played at the veterans' hall every Saturday night.
- arrangementsOrganized plans or configurations
- trumpetValved brass wind instrument
- horn sectionEnsemble of wind instruments
- Count BasieKansas City bandleader
- tromboneSlide-operated brass instrument
Duke Ellington · solos · call-and-response · jazz · Great Depression · Savoy Ballroom · syncopation · Lindy Hop · saxophone · World War II · Benny Goodman · improvisation · Harlem Renaissance · Glenn Miller · blues · clarinet · danceability · phrasing
- bandsbrass ensemble, drumline, wind ensemble, wind orchestra, percussion ensemble
- musical actsgroup, duo, trio, quartet, quintet
- musical ensemblesduet, orchestra, trio, quartet, quintet
- musical groupsorchestra, orchestras, choir, choirs, ensemble
- jazz bandscombo, ensemble, quartet, quintet, trio
- jazz groupscombo, jazz orchestra, quartet, quintet, trio
swing bandstring quartet
Four-piece chamber group
chamber ensemble · chamber orchestra · piano trio · folk duo · one-man band
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