Big Band

Definition: Big Band

Big Band

Noun

1. A large dance or jazz band usually featuring improvised solos by lead musicians.

Crosswords: Big Band

English words defined with "big band": Alton Glenn Miller ♦ Benjamin David Goodman, Benny Goodman, big-toothed aspen ♦ Glenn Miller, Goodman ♦ Miller ♦ the King of Swing. (references)

Specialty definitions using "big band": butt rock. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Big band

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A big band is a large musical ensemble that plays jazz music, especially swing.

The band is divided up into a number of sections, by instrument; each section usually has four or more members. All bands usually have a rhythm section, made up of drum set, bass, piano, and possibly guitar. There are also sections for trumpets, trombones, and saxophones (who sometimes double on flute or clarinet).

Sometimes there will also be a percussion section, especially if the band plays latin jazz or salsa music.

Big band music peaked in popularity during the 1940s, and much of the best-known popular music of the era was recorded by them. The bands of Cab Calloway, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Woody Herman, Glenn Miller, Boyd Raeburn, Paul Whiteman, Artie Shaw, Les Brown are amongst the best known.

Details of all known Big Bands can be found on The Big Bands Database plus at [1].

This is a list of band leaders who worked mainly in Britain taken from Julien Vedey's book Band Leaders (London, 1950):

Jack Hylton
Debroy Somers
Carroll Gibbons
Harry Roy
Jack Payne
Ambrose (Bert Ambrose)
Henry Hall (BBC Dance Orchestra)
Jay Whidden
Billy Cotton
Lew Stone
Stanley Black
Joe Loss
Major Glenn Miller
Ted Heath
Geraldo
Eric Winstone
Cyril Stapleton
Edmundo Ros
Oscar Rabin and Harry Davis
Victor Silvester
Billy Ternent
Ivy Benson
Tito Burns
Harry Parry
Ray Ellington
Harry Davidson
Harry Leader
Jack Jackson

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Big band."

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Modern Usage: Big Band

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I did not lift my skirt, it twirled up! You only remember the bad stuff, don't you? What about the big band I got to play at that party, do you remember that? (Postcards from the Edge; writing credit: Carrie Fisher) She was listening to her car radio, Big Band, not all talk. (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro)
Movie/TV Titles	Blue's Big Band (2003) London Big Band in Concert at the Albert Hall (1999) Harry Connick Jr.: The New York Big Band Concert (1993) Polizeiruf 110 - Big Band Time (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Big Band

Domain	Title
Books	A Guide to the Big Band Era: A Comprehensive Review of All the Recorded Hits and All the Hitmakers (reference) Bear's Big Band (Bear in the Big Blue House Squeeze and Squeak) (reference) Dialogues in Swing: Intimate Conversations With the Stars of the Big Band Era (reference) Jukebox Saturday Night: More Memories of the Big Band Ear and Beyond (reference) More Dialogues in Swing: Intimate Conversations With the Stars of the Big Band Era (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Big Band World (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Blue's Clues - Blue's Big Band (reference) Harry Connick, Jr.: The New York Big Band Concert (reference) Big Band Sound of World War II (reference) Big Band, Swing & Nightclub Dancing (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	The Gals Who Made the Big Band Swing (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Big Band".

Play	Caption
	A digital big band style excerpt typical of the retro-swing genre featuring synthesized brass and percussion. .
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Big Band

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
big band	236
big band era	40
big band arrangement	19
big band sound	10
mingus big band	6
mr big band	4
big band concert	3
ndr big band	2
carla bley big band	2
big band radio show	2
count basie big band	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Big Band

Language		Translations for "big band"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		�"タミン剤 (big, big bang, Big Ben, big business, big card, Big Egg, big event, big science, big screen, bit, bitmap, BITNET, important news, vitamin pills, Vitarice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"ッグバンド . (various references)

Pig Latin		igbay andbay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Big Band

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dabbing.
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-g-i-n"
	-3 letters: agin, band, bang, bani, bind, dang, ding, gadi, gain.
	-4 letters: aid, ain, and, ani, bad, bag, ban, bib, bid, big, bin, dab, dag, dib, dig, din, gab, gad, gan, gib, gid, gin, nab, nag, nib.
	-5 letters: ab, ad, ag, ai, an, ba, bi, id, in, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-g-i-n"
	+1 letter: dabbling, drabbing.
	+2 letters: bedaubing, dabblings, drabbling.
	+3 letters: bedabbling, bombarding.
	+4 letters: grandbabies, landlubbing, scabbarding.
	+5 letters: billboarding, blackbirding, boatbuilding, unbridgeable.
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