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

Hot hors d’oeuvres and cake were passed as a local swing band played.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2020

After graduating from Central High School at 19, Schaeffer married a musician, studied music at the University of Akron and then went pro, playing in a swing band with her mom and aunt.

From Washington Times • Apr. 12, 2019

Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor’s original musical about a group of World War II veterans who form a swing band is laying down its instruments.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2017

There was music playing, perhaps a swing band.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny