Word: swingman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran jazz bandleaders unburdened themselves on bebop. Sniffed schmalzy Guy Lombardo: "It's laid a big egg. As a matter of fact, it's nothing. I don't even know what they're doing, do you?" Snapped Swingman Tommy Dorsey: "I don't like bebop, and I admit it. I don't know anything about it, and I don't like the look of the people that...
...Said Swingman Charlie Barnet, whose white band had been one of the few wild enough to tickle Harlem's native ear: "Tension music was okay during the war. Now we're done with it." He was about to cut down his 21-piece swing band to a smaller, tamer one because loud music hadn't paid well enough lately. Said he: "I'm one of the worst offenders. I have six trumpet men. Imagine that...