State University Marching Band has been a big part of The Ohio State University campus and band history for a long time. The Ohio State Marching Band has influenced many people around the state and the country. Although becoming a member of The Ohio State Marching Band takes great effort and discipline in high school‚ staying a member of the band all four or five years of college takes even more tenacity. At the beginning of an Ohio State home football game‚ the marching band carries on a tradition
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1987 (aged 69) | Genre(s) | Jazz‚ Big band | Occupation(s) | Musician‚ songwriter‚ bandleader | Instrument(s) | drums and percussion | Years active | 1919–1987 | | | | | Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30‚ 1917 – April 2‚ 1987) was an American jazz drummer‚ bandleader and former Marine. Rich was billed as "the world’s greatest drummer"[1] and was known for his virtuoso technique‚ power‚ and speed. Contents[hide] * 1 Early life * 2 Big band success and later life * 3 Drumming
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I saw The Santa Fe Big Band 22nd‚ Annual Evening of Jazz Concert. The band was dressed up all matching. The men were wearing black dress shirts and pants‚ with dress shoes. The women wearing black formal dresses with red shoes. They all looked very professional and when they started playing it immediately took me back to the 1930s‚ the big band era. Most of the songs were of long length and with many solos through the songs. The instruments used to create the songs were: saxophones‚ trombones‚ trumpets
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of music most people listened to was the high beat "Swing". Swing was said to have been born in 1938 when Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers recorded "George Swing" (Microsoft music). Others say it started on a cold night when Bennie Moten’s band got an entire Kansas City ballroom jumping (World Book 159). Still others say it all started in 1932 when the great Duke Ellington recorded the album "The Anthem of Idiom"‚ "It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)". From the definition
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is like a big band but they have a swing feel to them. The bands whole persona is that of a big band that you would see on a dance television show back in the older days. There sound was very mellow and not loud at all. After Monique talked to a couple of the members in the band I found out that there influences on music where commonly set around the swing era‚ big band jazz‚ and Natalie Cole. The band is comprised of 18 members who all have different skill levels. When watching the band it looked
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The story of Count Basie is very much the story of the great jazz band that he led for close to 50 years (1935-1984)‚ an orchestra with a distinctive sound‚ anchored by a subtle but propulsive beat‚ buoyed by crisp ensemble work and graced with legendary soloists still to date a catalogue of featured players which read like a Who’s Who of jazz. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Count Basie band’s achievement was his steadfast perseverance in staying strong with a 50-year music run with several
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What year did drummer Jo Jones and Saxophone Lester Young joined the Count Basie Band. 1938 Boogie Woogie pianists often played in Bars‚ Saloons‚ Brothels‚ and honky-tonks. TRUE Recordings by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra of arrangements by Don Redman and Fletcher Henderson are some of the earliest examples of the use of “Swing Feel” in early Big Bands. Who was the first great bass soloist in Ellington’s band? Jimmy Blanton Bassist Walter Page led a group known as the Blue Devils Voicings
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Benny Goodman was a great jazz clarinet player and the leader of one of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (1935–1945). In fact‚ Time magazine dubbed him "the King of Swing." Benjamin David Goodman was born in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ on May 30‚ 1909‚ into a large‚ poor Jewish family. His parents‚ who had moved to the United States from Eastern Europe‚ were Dora and David Goodman. He first started playing clarinet at a local Chicago synagogue when he was about ten. He learnt the clarinet
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he was fourteen he was playing for a band that featured the famous Bix Beiderbecke. By sixteen he was known as far as the west coast and was invited to be in Ben Pollack’s band. While he played there four years he was also attending Illinois institute for technology in his sophomore year. His father was a middle class workman and Benny couldn’t imagine living a life like that. He was inspired to do better. During his life he had recordings with the bands and also recorded under his name. In
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bandleaders in the swing era. He began his musical career as a highly sought-after alto saxophone player in the New York area‚ and was able to benefit from the growth of radio and studio recordings. As he perfected his technical ability with various dance bands‚ he was still relatively unknown in the early 30’s when he began to focus exclusively on the Clarinet while Swing music began to grow in popularity. While we may carefully analyze the two pieces to satisfy our curiosity regarding musical evolution
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