Big band
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Sep 17, 2026
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Ralph Ben-MurgyHOST
Hi everybody, I'm Ralph Benrugi.
Ralph Ben-MurgyHOST
One of our listeners said he loves the show with Nick Fraser about free jazz, which is something.
Ralph Ben-MurgyHOST
It's not for everybody, but Nick did a great job selling it, and this guy wanted to get the playlist and dig a little deeper into that sort of thing.
Ralph Ben-MurgyHOST
Today I want to talk about Big Band.
Ralph Ben-MurgyHOST
Now, in this house, my wife's favorite subgenre of jazz is big band.
Ralph Ben-MurgyHOST
So it's not like we never listen to it.
Danny MillerGUEST
And so I was a solid... horn section player but i could never do the stuff now that i look and all the cats are doing it in town or like on on those gigs that's not kind of my bag and yeah i just felt like yeah it just kind of something was pushing me in that direction basically so after that i started depping on a load of shows i did my first one was ghost on the tour And then periodically from there, I've just done a lot of depping.
Danny MillerGUEST
I've done a lot of teaching as well as like writing and, and arranging for, for various things, whether that's like wind bands or big bands or like cruise ship stuff.
Danny MillerGUEST
or like touring kind of one night things there's just been I've just kind of like had my fingers in a lot of pies which has been really fun for a long time what I love about what we do is like I can do lots of different things and my my weeks are never the same like it's it's not a boring gig it's because what one minute I'm playing on a show and then the next minute I'm writing music and then the next minute like i'm supervising something and and going down and just watching the show and noting the musicians that are on it and the next one i'm sat in front of a spreadsheet you know booking musicians for for wedding gigs or whatever it is so yeah it's been nice and varied
Dan EzardHOST
I think I still get email reminders from that particular side hustle asking me to update my address or whatever it is.
Danny MillerGUEST
And so that was a huge influence.
Danny MillerGUEST
Anyway, I was writing a lot for that and writing a lot for the function band that I had.
Danny MillerGUEST
But I've always loved playing in big bands.
Danny MillerGUEST
That's been kind of the thing that for me has been... like a huge catalyst and and when i was in liverpool there's a huge gap in the market there for for big bands because there's just not many and lipper didn't have one and a lot of my writing when i was at uni was like was big band focused or jazz focus and i didn't have an outlet to have it played so it was like right let's start this band let's do a load of arranging and also it takes the pressure off you know having to write a load of music for what was like you know an everything orchestra kind of thing And yeah, so after that was just, it was very much like just a hobby kind of thing.
NinaHOST
[laughs]
speaker_12PANELIST
Big Band stuff? You know?
NinaHOST
Yes.
speaker_12PANELIST
Like, 'cause TikTok, at first, TikTok was all, like, young teenagers, and then now everybody's on TikTok, so does that mean that the audience is now getting older on TikTok, and now the teenagers are gonna be jumping off it?
NinaHOST
[laughs]
Jubal FreshHOST
Big Band stuff? You know?
Victoria RamirezPANELIST
Yes.
Jubal FreshHOST
Like, 'cause TikTok, at first TikTok was all, like, young teenagers, and then now everybody's on TikTok.
Alya Al NuaimiHOST
They called it the Big Bang.
Alya Al NuaimiHOST
And no, not the Big Bang, Big Band, the one that you know.
Alya Al NuaimiHOST
This was the nickname that the team gave to a special set of power changes that they made to the spacecraft.
Alya Al NuaimiHOST
So basically, they went through Voyager 2's systems very carefully, like going through your house, probably turning off every light you're not using to save on the electricity bill.
Sid GribetzHOST
So that was Lester Young.
Sid GribetzHOST
But during this period when he was a regular working member of a touring, performing b- big band, there are several instances in which he appears in small groups, uh, arising out of those situations, and we're gonna feature for the next segment of our show Lester Young in small groups in, uh, the late 1930s.
Sid GribetzHOST
And the very first small group is a very significant matter, talking about Count Basie, and that is, yeah, Count Basie was signed up as he was making his fame and was about to leave Kansas City and become a national attraction.
Sid GribetzHOST
He was signed up for a exclusive recording contract with Decca Records.
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Sid GribetzHOST
We're here preempting all our programming for 72 hours, playing you the music of Lester Young and Charlie Parker.
Sid GribetzHOST
My name is Sid Gribbits, your host for this segment of the lengthy broadcast.
Sid GribetzHOST
And we're doing a mini segment right now, looking at small group recordings of Lester Young during the period that he was a regular working member of Count Basie's big band in the late 1930s.
Sid GribetzHOST
The next entry we have for you is a great anomaly and mystery of jazz discography lore.
Adam GautilleGUEST
Yeah.
Robert BosworthHOST
Like, a lot of suave band leaders from the Big Band era played trumpet, and they were-
Adam GautilleGUEST
Yeah.
Adam GautilleGUEST
No, you're right
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Adam GautilleGUEST
You know, like middle school, high school.
Robert BosworthHOST
Oh, okay.
Adam GautilleGUEST
And, um, great trumpet player, had like great, um, great teachers and, you know, his, his uncle, um, [lips smack] uh, Uncle Tony, like this very Italian trumpet player in big bands, uh, also taught him and, um, and this guy Frank Del Russo who was like an adopted grandpa for us.
Adam GautilleGUEST
And so anyways, I open this trumpet, I'm six, and I, I was like, okay there's like a mouthpiece there and a trumpet here and I just put it together.
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EricHOST
nostalgia.
EricHOST
I feel like Kevin likes bands that are like Earth, Wind & Fire, Big Band.
EricHOST
He likes Collective Soul.
EricHOST
George Clinton, or what's his name? Parliament Funkadelic.
JustinHOST
As the night continues, we do replace the harpist with a instrumentation more appropriate to a large party as we have a full band with brass.
JustinHOST
Big band.
JustinHOST
I do love big band as a name for a genre just by how outright descriptive it is.
BethHOST
Hell yeah, brother.
CalebHOST
That's a big band right there.
CalebHOST
I
BethHOST
think I found a record the other day that just on the front, no other text, just said, music.
SamHOST
It's the first thing they teach you.
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