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Big band refers to a jazz group of 10 or more musicians, usually featuring at least three trumpets, two or more trombones, four or more saxophones, and a rhythm section of accompanists playing some combination of piano, guitar, bass, and drums. Big-band music as a concept for music fans is identified most with the swing era, though there were large, jazz-oriented dance bands before the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s and large jazz-oriented bands after the swing era. Classification difficulties occur when music stores shelve recordings by all large jazz ensembles as though it were a single style, despite the shifting harmonic and rhythmic approaches employed by new ensembles of similar instrumentation that have formed since the swing era. By lumping the music of all large jazz bands together marketers overlook the different kinds of jazz that large groups have performed: swing (Duke Ellington and Count Basie), bebop (Dizzy Gillespie), cool (Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Shorty Rogers, Gil Evans), hard bop (Gerald Wilson, Charles Mingus), free jazz (some of Sun Ra's work after the l950s) and jazz-rock fusion (Don Ellis's and Maynard Ferguson's groups of the 1970s). Not all of them are swing bands.
Swing bands started to play a large part in people's lives in the late 30's as people tried to shake off the depression by dansing. Large ballrooms were extremely common and therefore large bands were also needed. Jazz music had been played as a form as entertainment since its inception. During the swing era jazz music developed into tremendous music to dance to. Jazz groups seldom performed just for listening. Swing dansing was an extremely popular past time. During this era, jazz achieved wide popular appeal. One of Count Basie's recordings, One O'Clock Jump, sold over a million copies. There is no defining moment when bop was born. Rather, many unrelated events helped with the birth of bop. Bop developed in many locals including Kansas City and St. Louis. It solidified as a jazz form in New York in the early 1940's. Bop first made its appearances in the playing of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk. These three musicians played together and refined a very complex kind of music. http://library.thinkquest.org/18602/history/cool/coolstart.html
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Charles Mingus,
Cool Beyond,
History Jazz,
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Thelonious Monk,
Dixieland Dixieland,
Charlie Parker,
City Swing,
Buddy Bolden,
Bessie Smith,
swing era,
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louis armstrong,
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benny goodman,
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gillespie thelonious monk,
count basie's duke,
parker dizzy gillespie,
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