Recommend Me Some Big Band Music

[rockin_amigo14]

I got a listen to the track called Tank! from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. The band is called the Seatbelts. It is a really smoking piece. Can anyone recommend some music like this?

 

[bigshot]

I don't know that particular piece, but for great big band swing look for Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Billy May.

See ya
Steve

 

[jowille]

Glen Miller!

 

[Thelonious Monk]

the standard "sing, sing, sing" is pretty easily accessible to rock fans. all of the stuff bigshot mentioned is great.

 

[nin3th]

Brian Setzer orchestra-dirty boogy

 

[scompton]

Of the swing CDs that I own, my favorite is Big Band Instrumentals: 16 Most Requested Songs

It's a very good introduction to classic big band swing.


x2 for the Brian Setzer. He's among my favorite for swing revival.

 

[jcn3]

tommy dorsey, benny goodman . . .

 

[Csericks]

Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway

 

[Culverin]

listen to the rest the bebop soundtrack. you won't be dissapointed

 

[eyeresist]

What you want is big band bebop (bebop is a kind of jazz, in case you didn't know). Check out:

Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport

http://www.amazon.com/At-Newport-Diz...7389512&sr=1-6

Bebop Professor

http://www.amazon.com/Bebop-Professo...7389856&sr=1-2


See also this list:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Indispensa...d_i=B00000HYII

 

[58impala]

mathew herbert big band is a good recommendation if you like the seatbelts

 

[rlanger]

For some more modern stuff, check out The Boss Brass.

 

[rabbitearscarver]

Oh, you gotta have Maynard Ferguson. And Stan Kenton.
Newer stuff: Cherry Poppin Daddies, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

 

[courierdriver]

I second the Cherry Poppin' Daddies (the CD "Zoot Suit Riot" is killer). You might also want to check out Colin James and The Little Big Band I and II.

 

[Aman]

My favorite big band is the McKinney Cotton Pickers, led by drummer Don Redman. However, Dave Holland's Big Band is sweet, as well as the classic Benny Goodman and his days with the big band.