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Big Band & Swing
Although Big Bands -- meaning a jazz group that features over 10 musicians -- have played a variety of different styles in jazz history, from bop to free jazz, it usually is understood to refer to the '30s and '40s, the classic era of swing. During that time, most of the jazz groups were Big Bands and they played a robust, invigorating style of swing that derived from New Orleans jazz. Swing was dance music, yet it offered individual musicians a chance to improvise musically fresh, technically complex solos. Since swinging Big Bands led by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey were extraordinarily popular, the terms became interchangeable in the public eye. It may be disingenuous to call all Big Bands "swing" -- just like all "swing" isn't performed by Big Bands -- but the two are forever tied together, since they matured simultaneously. Furthermore, Big Bands from different genres, whether it's cool jazz or jazz-rock, often borrow from the Swing Big Band tradition. More in Jazz: Acid Jazz | Ballads - Jazz | Bebop & Straight Ahead | Big Band & Swing | Blues | Contemporary Jazz | Cool | Dixieland | Fusion | Latin Jazz | New Orleans / Second Line | Smooth Jazz Sort by: Newest | Oldest | Alphabetical 
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The Crawl by Kevin Packard Music ID: 15576 
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01:02 $49.00 (A) or $69.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Gene Krupa like uptempo swing track. Toms, drums, bass, saxes, trumpets, trombones, bass.... | ||
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Strut by Kevin Packard Music ID: 15572 
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01:02 $49.00 (A) or $69.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| A slow groovin' jazz quintet track with Saxes, piano, bass, and drums.... | ||
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The Balloon Song by Lee Fitzsimmons Music ID: 15213 
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02:14 $99.95 (A) or $99.95 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Straight ahead swing tune with sax, flute, and a rich baritone vocal...... | ||
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Swingin by Timothy Juliano Music ID: 13642 
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02:07 $20.00 (A) or $50.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Swingin Jazz Trio Track with Piano as the focus. Could be used in a movie like "Swingers"... | ||
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Las Vegas by Dan Foster Music ID: 12173 
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02:33 $59.00 (A) or $79.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Swing jazz piece, full orchestra with stylish solo sax. Red carpet entrance. Excellent for comedy, sitcom, romatic images.... | ||
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Gypsy soul by Dan Foster Music ID: 12164 
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02:08 $59.00 (A) or $79.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| melodic, excited, joyful, jazzy swing piece with a Django style guitar and Gypsy solo violin. Eastern europe feel. Great for comedy, sitcom, historical.... | ||
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Patio Swingers by Vaddi Solanof Music ID: 11700 
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00:33 $50.00 (A) or $50.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| A bit of good-time swing music. Has a lift half-way through which is suited for ads.... | ||
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Cool Running by Dan Foster Music ID: 11628 
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03:01 $59.00 (A) or $79.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Jazz quartet piece , swing tune excellent for comedy, sitcom, action.... | ||
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Jazz club by Dan Foster Music ID: 11594 
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02:44 $59.00 (A) or $79.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Motivational, Enthusiastic Jazzy piece .A colorful combination of an energetic melody and lively rhythms. optimistic and confident tune.... | ||
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Patio Party by Vaddi Solanof Music ID: 11564 
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00:35 $50.00 (A) or $50.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| a light jazz tune such as would be played at a Society party... | ||
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Last Bridge by Simon Brewer Music ID: 11481 
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01:26 $28.65 (A) or $42.65 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Traditional marching brass band - lively and patriotic feel, with comical tints Many uses - schools, historic documentaries, military comedy etc... | ||
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Electro Vibe by Sheila Miller Music ID: 11261 
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01:31 $7.00 (A) or $60.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Jazzy Electro Would be Great for older movie Zazzy dance scene and More,Drums Bass Piano,Pad... | ||
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Swingin Time by Gavin Courtie & Liz Radford Music ID: 10294 
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03:35 $15.00 (A) or $75.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Jazzy rhythm and blues orchestra, medium paced, solid and bright, a really happy sound - full length track.... | ||
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It's A Mood by Gavin Courtie & Liz Radford Music ID: 10209 
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02:50 $15.00 (A) or $75.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Big band swing from the 1930s and 1940s in the Glen Miller style, full of mean-blowing trombones, trumpets and clarinets, toe-tapping pace, full-length piece... | ||
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Say Its Only The Moon by Gavin Courtie & Liz Radford Music ID: 10208 
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02:57 $15.00 (A) or $75.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| 1930s and 1940s "end of the night" slow dance, relaxed and romantic... | ||
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Limehouse Rag 29 by Gavin Courtie & Liz Radford Music ID: 10200 
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00:29 $15.00 (A) or $45.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Ragtime piano, late 1800s early 1900s, great for all historical shots of that period, silent movie use, references to 19th century, nice piece of playing along the lines of Scott Joplin. This is a 30 ... | ||
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Hip Bass by Harley Toberman Music ID: 7473 
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00:37 $29.00 (A) or $99.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Syncopated bass and hi-hat.... | ||
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Elephants by Cm Three Music ID: 5180 
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01:05 $3.19 (A) or $9.57 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| confused, crazed, ecstasy... | ||
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Old Town 30 by Vaddi Solanof Music ID: 4433 
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00:39 $50.00 (A) or $50.00 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| A 40's style tune.... | ||
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Wes' Guitar Swing by Stephen Bashaw Music ID: 3845 
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01:30 $59.95 (A) or $59.95 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Jazz guitar swing with improvisation 2nd time around.... | ||
