Word: swingingest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blue Rose (Columbia). An inspired teaming of Songstress Rosemary Clooney and Bandman Duke Ellington. The Duke's crew is in a lush mood, and Rosie sings her swingingest-despite the fact that she sang the lyrics on the West Coast and he played in Manhattan. Taped at her best, in such famed Ellington originals as Mood Indigo and I Got It Bad, she actually sounds like that late princess of vocalists, Ivie Anderson...
...wear thin. Some of its innovations, e.g., more advanced harmonies and trickier rhythms, were absorbed into the jazz idiom as a whole. Big-band music began to appear more often on records. Basie collected a new full-size outfit 16 months ago, bounced back with a reputation as the swingingest band in the land...
Woody Herman at Carnegie Hall, 1946 (MGM, LP). Fifteen rowdy and tender numbers played by one of the swingingest bands of all. Herman's 1946 "Herd," for all its size and precision, sounds as flexible as a small jam band...