swing band
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“He could overhaul an engine and not get his hands dirty,” said Tommy Hays, 92, a Western swing band leader.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2022
In another theater, guitarist Bill Kirchen held a tribute for his pioneering country rock swing band, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022
In the late 1950s, Lindsay and his western swing band traveled the west, and frequently loaded up the bus to head to Compton, California, to appear on the national ABC-TV show “Town Hall Party.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 10, 2018
The senator hails from a musical family; her father had a swing band and taught her at an early age to play boogie-woogie.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2017
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
