Anyone making big band music anymore?

[Baitball Blogger]

Listening to some good seventy eighties music and it occurred to me that everything has gone more vocal.

[DBoon]

1. Pink Martini, Squirrrel Nut Zippers, and Cherry Popping Daddies are worth a try

[underpants]

2. Not really Big band but if you rpever have a chance to see Lyle Lovett DO!

One of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

Looks like he’s only doing live-streams now

https://www.lylelovett.com/

[marble falls]

3. Start here ...

New Big Band - Wikipedia
[Search domain en.wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Big_Band
New Big Band is a term used to refer to the revivalist movement of 21st Century Jazz artists who are bringing a new form of Big Band music that fuses elements of traditional swing bands of leaders like Duke Ellington and Count Basie whose popularity peaked from the 1930s through the 1950s with the more intense sounds produced by smaller groups of the Bop era of the 1950s and beyond.

[Celerity]

6. That article needs updating, as Roy Hargrove died in autumn 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hargrove

A quiet and retiring person in life, Hargrove struggled with kidney failure. He died of cardiac arrest brought on by kidney disease on November 2, 2018 while hospitalized in New Jersey. According to his manager, Larry Clothier, Hargrove had been on dialysis for the last 14 years of his life.


Roy Hargrove feat. by WDR BIG BAND - Hargrove Grooves | Full Concert

RIP

[PJMcK]

4. Bob Curnow is still around

This one is a few years old but it's still really great:

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. If you like New Orleans type of old timey Jazz....

Give Tuba Skinny a listen too.

You might like Wyton Marsallis or Harry Connick Junior......they are the closest to 40's Big Band.

Of course, there is always the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.....recommend Linda Ronstadt's music that was backed by the NRO. Luscious.

[Hotler]

7. Bob Mintzer Big Band. I miss Maynard Ferguson.

He always put together a great band.