Word: bande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above is a rough condensation of what one Louis Armstrong now at the Southland with his band has done for jazz. "Satchmo'" has given jazz a colorful lexicography all its own, and even more important has exercised tremendous influence on the music itself...
Popular colored vocalist for Chick Webb's band, Ella Fitzgerald will be imported to swing several numbers in her accustomed style. Ammons will come to the Yard from the Cafe Society in New York to demonstrate the boogiewoogie style of piano playing...
Rock-A-Bye Basie (Count Basie; Vocalion). New theme song of the No. 1 colored hot band...
...Beautiful Doll and a dozen others-are calculated to evoke an era when alligators lived only in swamps, or zoos. And they succeed so completely that when Vernon Castle's plane crashes at Fort Worth, even the inevitable closing shot, in which Irene tells the band to keep on playing, acquires dignity...
Including all of the recordings of Benny's band and many rare examples of early swing, the gift will form the nucleus of a complete library of popular American music. The maestro has promised to send the Theatre Collection all his future recordings...