Big Band & Swing 6

Big Band & Swing

This Orchestra is a swing band for today, with its own distinctive songs and sound - light-hearted, energetic, witty, romantic feel good music - made by six brass, five reeds, four rhythm and four singers, all playing and singing their hearts out. Eighteen cats and one lovely canary, breathing and feeling the rhythm as one - it's wild!
This is the Los Angeles-based outfit that has filled the Hollywood Palladium, the Satin Ballroom, the Avalon Casino, and the Coconut Club with more dancers, more often than any other band!

The band that recorded the soundtrack to Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, appeared on Third Rock from the Sun and the Disney TV movie Tower of Terror, and whose songs have been used in dozens of Hollywood films Including Contact, Independence Day, Cats Don't Dance, and Dick Tracy! Besides playing the original music of its leader, the band performs authentic arrangements from the golden years of swing, including music by Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, and Duke Ellington. Such classics as "King Porter Stomp", "Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe", "Carioca", "Blues In The Night", and many others come to life with a suave polish and authentic style that no other contemporary band can match. This Swing Orchestra seems to have leaped out of a time machine, and performs with all the excitement, sophistication, and enthusiasm of the best bands of the first swing era.