1950 Ella Fitzgerald – Someone To Watch Over Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM2bh1bQS…
1951 Miles Davis – It Could Happen To You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jF2NmMUO…
1952 Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie- Hot House http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91dolWWde…
1953 Louis Armstrong –Struttin with Some Barbecue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSbRs2TjV…
1954 Louis Prima : Chicago Boogie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEkHrEW1g…
1955 Anita O’Day – I Can’t Get Started With You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QOLDGGOk…
1956 Gerry Mulligan – Walking Shoes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV8r41lGH…
1957 Billie Holiday – Fine and Mellow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tNSp7MaA…
1958 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – Moanin’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKXsnDvIL…
1959 Annie Ross – Twisted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StDLnFrbi…
I’m not a big jazz fan – I can recognize Satchmo, and I like S. Bechet, some B. Goodman (sing, sing, sing!!), Fats Waller, Cab Calloway.
But, the big band music recorded since 1980 has no bite, so little spirit. It’s like a muzak version of 1920s and 1930s big band music.
Am I a fuddy-duddy, am I missing something, or is that why big-band music is not very popular anymore?
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