swing band
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A thudding kick drum and a mournful sax set up “I’ll Play the Fool” before a rubbery rumba beat and swing band take over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
As a teenager, the pianist and composer played in a swing band, his own trio and then in a sextet called the Jazz Epistles, which also included another South African jazz great, Hugh Masakela.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
That performance featured Corey Cott as Donny, a singer-songwriter who rounds up a group of fellow vets — all grieving in some way — to enter a national radio station’s swing band competition.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2020
A drummer and his singer girlfriend form a high-school swing band for a radio contest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2020
On Friday and Saturday nights, to pay his tuition and help with the home finances, he played saxophone and clarinet in a swing band, the Blue Lyres, he had started in high school.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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