Swing out : great Negro dance bands

Resource Information

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Label

Swing out : great Negro dance bands

Title remainder

great Negro dance bands

Instantiates

• Swing out : great Negro dance bands

Publication

• Midland, Mich., Pendell Pub. Co., 1970

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

The negro brings jazz to the big band age -- Fate Marable -- Jim Europe and the hellfighters -- Fletcher Henderson -- Charlie Cook -- Duke Ellington -- Mc Kinney's cotton pickers -- Alphonso Trent -- Noble Sissle -- Count Basie -- Speed Webb and his Hollywood blue devils -- Louis Armstrong and the big bands -- Chick Webb and his chicks -- Ella Fitzgerald and her orchestra -- Fats Waller -- Andy Kirk and his clouds of joy -- Erskine Hawkins -- Don Redman -- The Jeter-Pillars band -- Lionel Hampton -- Cab Calloway -- Claude Hopkins -- Jimmie Lunceford -- Harlan Leonard and his rockets -- Earl "Fatha" Hines -- Dizzy Gillespie -- And other voices: Leon Abbey ; Shuffle Abernathy ; Jasper "Jap" Allen ; Walter Barnes and his royal creolians ; Eubie Blake and his "shuffle along" orchestra ; Tiny Bradshaw ; Willie Bryant ; Billy Butler (The Savoy Bearcats) ; Elmer Calloway ; Benny Carter ; Chic Carter ; Chris Columbus' mad men ; Charlie Creath ; Billy Eckstine ; Roy Eldridge ; Charlie Elgar's dreamland and municipal pier orchestra ; Mercer Ellington ; Joe Garland ; W. C. Handy ; Marion Hardy's Alabamians ; Coleman Hawkins ; Teddy Hill ; Les Hite ; Doc Hyder ; Alex Jackson ; Dewey Jackson ; Buddy Johnson ; Louis Jordan ; Milton Larkins ; George E. Lee and his novelty singing orchestra ; Jay Mc Shann ; Lucky Millinder ; Mills blue rhythm ; George Morrison ; Bennie Moten's Kansas City orchestra ; Joe "King" Oliver's dixie syncopators ; Renaissance ballroom orchestra ; Eli Rice ; Luckey Roberts ; Allie Ross ; Luis Russell's Saratoga club orchestra ; Wilbur Sweatman ; The sweethearts of rhythm ; Erskine Tate's Vendome theatre orchestra ; J. Frank Terry's Chicago nightingales ; Fess Whatley ; Zack Whyte and his chocolate beau Brummels ; Cootie Williams ; Fess Williams and his royal flush orchestra ; Teddy Wilson ; Sam Wooding -- Can the big bands return?

Control code

67217

Dimensions

29 cm

Extent

176 pages

Lccn

78098066

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Note

UMKC: Music Z Coll. copy forms part of the Norman Saks Collection.

Other physical details

illustrations, portraits

Record ID

.b14516500

System control number

(WaOLN)514776