A Big Band Tribute
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Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Harry James --- just a few of the great names of the “Swing Era” that dominated popular music in the 1930’s and ‘40’s. This retrospective will give us an opportunity to reflect on how these and other great musicians employed the jazz idiom to enable Americans living through the Great Depression and World War II to listen and dance to a new art form and how it helped popularize radio and Hollywood films.
Through a variety of video and audio clips we will be able to experience once again such classics as "In the Mood," "Stardust," "Take the ‘A’ Train," "Moonlight Serenade," and "Sing, Sing, Sing." As the great Duke Ellington and lyricist Irving Mills noted in a classic arrangement from 1931, "It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!"
Through a variety of video and audio clips we will be able to experience once again such classics as "In the Mood," "Stardust," "Take the ‘A’ Train," "Moonlight Serenade," and "Sing, Sing, Sing." As the great Duke Ellington and lyricist Irving Mills noted in a classic arrangement from 1931, "It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!"
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