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Make It Big - Swingin' Orchestra Sounds

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1.	Two O'Clock Jump - Harry James 03:00	buy track
2.	Oh, Lady Be Good - Billy Butterfield 02:53	buy track
3.	Prelude to a Kiss - Benny Carter 03:18	buy track
4.	The Lady's in Love with You - Mel Tormé 02:59	buy track
5.	Everything but You - Cootie Williams 02:47	buy track
6.	Jersey Bounce - Benny Goodman 03:08	buy track
7.	Jivin' with Jack the Bellboy - Illinois Jacquet 02:51	buy track
8.	Where Were You - Nat King Cole with Pete Rugolo 02:19	buy track
9.	Cloudy - Harry Allen 05:24	buy track
10.	Skycoach - Ray Anthony 02:47	buy track
11.	Mister Five by Five - Freddie Slack 03:03	buy track
12.	The Jive Don't Come from Kokomo - Randy Sandke 05:57	buy track
13.	Who, Me - Eddie Miller 02:55	buy track
14.	They Can't Take That Away from Me - Ray Conniff 03:04	buy track
15.	Floatin' - Bobby Sherwood 02:47	buy track
16.	Lover's Leap - Les Brown 02:59	buy track
17.	Flying Home - Duke Ellington 06:16	buy track

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There was a time when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era.
- Scott Yanow

The swing era (also frequently referred to as the big band era) was the period (1933–1947) when big band swing music was the most popular music in the United States. Though this was its most popular period, the music had actually been around since the late 1920s and early 1930s, being played by black bands led by such artists as Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Bennie Moten, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines, and Fletcher Henderson, and white bands led by the likes of Jean Goldkette, Russ Morgan, Benny Goodman, and Isham Jones. The 1930s also became the era of other great soloists: the tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Lester Young; the alto saxophonists Benny Carter and Johnny Hodges; the drummers Chick Webb, Gene Krupa, Jo Jones and Sid Catlett; the pianists Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson; the trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Bunny Berigan, and Rex Stewart.

The swing era brought to swing music Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and by 1938 Ella Fitzgerald. Other musicians who rose during this time include Jimmy Dorsey, his brother Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Goodman's future rival Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman. Several factors led to the demise of the swing era: the 1942–44 musicians' strike from August 1942 to November 1944 (The union that most jazz musicians belong to told its members not to record until the record companies agreed to pay them each time their music was played on the radio), the earlier ban of ASCAP songs from radio stations, World War II which made it harder for bands to travel around as well as the "cabaret tax", which was as high as 30%, the rise of vocalist-centered pop and R&B as the dominant forms of popular music, and the rising interest in bebop among jazz musicians.

Though some big bands survived through the late 1940s (Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Woody Herman), most of their competitors were forced to disband, bringing the swing era to a close. Big-band jazz would experience a resurgence starting in the mid-1950s, but it would never attain the same popularity as it had during the swing era. Here you can enjoy some classics from the swing era and other greats from beyond that time.

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released March 16, 2021

Various Artists

Recorded 1942 - 1947, 1950 - 1958, 1962, 1996, 1999.

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nagel heyer records Germany

nagel heyer records, of Hamburg, Germany, was founded in 1992 by Hans Nagel-Heyer, an enthusiastic jazz fan, and his wife Sabine..

The label's mission is to present the finest in modern, mainstream and traditional jazz by some of the best swing-orientated jazzmen in the world today.

In 2020 we celebrated the 28th anniversary of the label - and looking forward to much more great music to come. ... more

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