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Originally Posted by Nicktarist
Big band? Count Basie? Duke Ellington? Charles Mingus? They were mostly swing (Mingus was bop and hard bop I believe), but that's a good place to start if you want big bands.
-nick
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pretty much my exact answer.. i would only add Cab Calloway.
but for my money Basie and Ellington were the best. Ellington is imo maybe the most important figure in Jazz, period, behind Louis Armstrong. But I guess that's very debatable.
