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The term Big Band , referring to Jazz, is vague but popular. The term generally refers to the swing era starting around 1935 but no one event kicked off a new form of music in 1935. It had evolved naturally from the blues and jazz of New Orleans, Chicago, and Kansas City. A big band is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. In this book, you will be told such personalized anecdotes as which famous crooner was invited to sing along with a big band when he was only four years old? Which big band enjoyed receiving big tips from mobster Al Capone? How did Nathaniel Adams Coles become Nat King Cole? Who gambled away part of a band's income and left Woody Herman in serious debt to the IRS? What was Norma Deloris Egstrom's professional name? Who once angrily threw a pitcher of water at drummer Buddy Rich? How did Shirley Luster become June Christy?

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