Sentence examples for swing orchestra from inspiring English sources

Miller would eventually leave to start his historic swing orchestra.

Some Chaps like to dance, but only if the band is a full swing orchestra.

His father, John McLean, had been a guitarist in Tiny Bradshaw's successful swing orchestra in New York.

Quietly, at first, and then with gradually rising force, the sound of a prewar swing orchestra began to purr out of small speakers.

He studied composition in California in the late 1940s, and soon began arranging for the innovative, Bartok-and-Debussy influenced dance band of Boyd Raeburn, and the swing orchestra of Jimmy Dorsey.

She became one of the first African Americans to cross the music-business colour divide and tour with an all-white band, singing for the successful Charlie Barnet swing orchestra in 1940 and sometimes sleeping in the band bus when hotels would not let her enter with her colleagues.

In these respects they influenced newly formed swing orchestras, including those led by Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, and Larry Clinton.

BEFORE garage bands, before swing orchestras, even before Sousa marches sounded in town gazebos, there was the mandolin orchestra.

His father owned a music shop on Sixth Avenue (it cameos in Homer and Langley, when Langley finds there "a virtual musicologist, with recordings of swing orchestras and crooners and songstresses that no other store had").

There will be 1950s swing orchestras, a George Formby tribute band and others on the bandstand, a traditional fun fair, competitions, games, storytelling and craft workshops, a tea garden staffed by members of the Women's Institute - with a record-breaking attempt for the tallest cake.

On Saturday Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra swing and jive, and on Sunday Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens sing soul music influenced by Ms. Shelton's church choir as well as by the clubs she frequents in New York.