Swing out : great Negro dance bands / by Gene Fernett ; new introduction by Dan Morgenstern.
| Author/creator | Fernett, Gene |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First Da Capo Press edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Da Capo Press, 1993. |
| Description | 174 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prologue -- The Negro brings jazz to the big band age -- Fate Marable -- Jim Europe and the Hellfighters -- Fletcher Henderson -- Charlie Cook -- Duke Ellington -- McKinney'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 McShann ; 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 Saratroga 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? |
| Abstract | From the earliest "riverboat jazz" to Dizzy Gillespie's "Hep-Sations of 1945," this book is the only complete story of the great black dance bands who dazzled America for over 40 years. Here are intimate looks at lal the greats: how Fletcher Henderson would become so hypnotized by the sound of his band that he would quit playing piano and just listen; how "Bubber" Miley of the Duke Ellington Orchestra invented the "growl technique"; how Noble Sissle became the darling of the international set; how John Hammond brought Count Basie to New York; how Erskine Hawkins developed a short musical break into the hit "Tuxedo junction"; how Jimmie Lunceford created his orchestra from his high school students; and scores of other inside stories about such notables as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, and Earl Hines. These colorful anecdotes are reinforced by more than 150 magnificent photographs. The richness of jazz history cannot be fully appreciated without reading about the black dance bands that dominated jazz throughout the first half of this century. |
| General note | Originally published: Midland, MI : Pendell Pub. Co., 1970. With new introduction. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 93009141 |
| ISBN | 0306805014 |