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For musical groups consisting of horns arranged to play in sections together with piano, bass, and drums. Includes the notable bands and leaders of the 1930s, 40s and 50s as well as groups performing today.

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• - Sixteen-piece orchestra from Denver offers photo, history, composition, playlist and upcoming events, as well as useful music-lover links.
  
• - Message board and discussion forum for fans of the British dance bands and popular music of the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's.
  
• - Seventeen piece swing orchestra from Audubon, Pennsylvania. News, booking information, member information, song clips, show dates, band history, and information on side bands.
  
• - Nineteen-piece band from Ontario, Canada hosts an annual festival each September. Photo, public performance schedule.
  
• - Group from Melbourne with 12 to 15 piece plays jazz and swing, with photo, biography and sound samples.
  
• - Rhode Island band. History, contact information, song list, links, photos.
  
• - Nineteen-piece band offers history, schedule of engagements, booking information, arrangements for sale, play list, fund-raising ideas, links, and sample songs.
  
• - [Willow Springs, MO, US] Playing jazz and swing with full horn sections. Schedule including dates West Plains Opera House in southern Missouri, photos, audio clips, online ticket sales.
  
• - A 16-piece jazz and swing band with a repertoire of many musical styles. Includes gig calendar, photos from a Queensland tour, and player profiles.
  
• - Features musicians from the London West End theatres. Contains testimonials, photos, and sound clips.
  
• - Adult education swing band with vocalists features classic tunes, original compositions, exhibition dancers, audience participation at concerts and dances in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Band profile and history, schedule, CDs, member biographies,
  
• - Tacoma and Seattle based 20 piece orchestra, in the style of Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, and Count Basie. Site features booking information and performance schedule.
  
• - Eighteen-piece band from Ontario, Canada, playing a variety of styles for concerts, weddings and parties, and offering CDs for sale.
  
• - Group playing jazz, swing and popular music based in West Sussex, England. Sound files and slideshows.
  
• - Big band playing tunes from the Swing Era, playing parties, concerts and weddings. Located in Los Alamitos, California. Band profile, contact information, calendar of public engagements, their CD, mailing list, and a few links.
  
• - Available for hire, playing classic big band music, contemporary jazz, and a dash of cheese. Auditions, membership support, CD sales.
  
• - Sydney, Australia big band. Repertoire, audio samples, contact information.
  
• - 1920's to 30's style big band in Washington, D.C. Playing music internationally. Band leader biography, music samples, photo album, booking information, reviews, and upcoming shows.
  
• - Drummer-led 17-piece big band performs throughout the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia including classic swing, rock, disco and shag. Song list, photos, testimonials.
  
• - Based in New England, playing swing and big band music. Band information, repertoire list, contact information and a FAQ.
  
• - Sixteen-piece swing band for New Orleans area high school students conducted by founder Keith Buccola. Photos, personnel.
  
• - Based in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, this 17-piece band plays jazz charts from Ellington/Basie to the present.
  
• - Whangerei, New Zealand based. Band information, member list, guest book, CD, news, contact information.
  
• - [Kansas City, MO, US] Seventeen-piece band. Recordings, audio samples, guest book, contact information, links.
  
• - Sinatra stylist leads nineteen-piece New York big band playing swing music. MP3 audio, photos, history.
  
• - Toronto-based 18-piece band with vocalist playing swing era dance music. Photo, trivia quiz, schedule.
  
• - Minneapolis-St. Paul band. Reviews, member list, schedule, contact information.
  
• - Band under the direction of drummer Don Pentleton booking concerts and dance dates. Biography of the late Glenn Miller alto saxophonist.
  
• - Jazz orchestra from the Catholic High School, Chester United Kingdom. Offers details of the ensemble, concerts, tours, CDs and related links.
  
• - Duluth 16 piece band. Song list, calendar, video clips, contact information.
  
• - Community dance band of sixteen pieces or more based in Forest, Ontario, the current form of a band established in 1880. Photos, gig schedule, personnel, history.
  
• - [Midlands, UK] With five saxes, eight brass, four rhythm and optional vocalist, regular performers at public, private and corporate functions throughout the UK. MP3 demos, photos.
  
• - Baltimore based. Performance schedule, online booking form, mailing list, band profile, song list, auditions, links, contact information.
  
• - A 20-member big band based in Poughkeepsie, New York. Event calendar, CD information, sound clips, song list, photo gallery, radio guide, and links to big band related sites.
  
• - Not-for-profit 22-piece California ensemble re-creating the swing sound of the 1930s and 1940s, and specializing in the Army Air Force Band led by Captain Glenn Miller. Gig schedule, photos.
  
• - Large swing band based at Jaroslav Kocianin Art School at Usti nad Orlici, near Prague, Czechoslovakia, conducted by Zdenek Cerny ("black" in Czech). Photo, history, machine-translated English pages from Czech.
  
• - [Toledo, OH, US] Fifteen-piece dance band available for private parties, weddings, annviversaries, and other occasions. Profile and contact information.
  
• - A non-profit 23-piece big band entertaining Southern New Hampshire with music from the swing era. Member profiles, song list, auditions, rehearsal schedule, scrapbook, guest book, contact information, events schedule, and links.
  
• - Big band playing jazz concerts in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. Personnel, rehearsal and performance schedules.
  
• - [Sussex, UK] Photos, audio, musicians, events, bookings. Playing Basie, Ellington, Kenton, Goodman and original arrangements.
  
• - Melbourne, Australia based band. Contains profile, audio samples, photographs, calendar, and member list.
  
• - Milwaukee group playing danceable swing and standards in the 1940s style. Features song list, schedule and links.
  
• - [Ontario, Canada] Eighteen member big band. Profile, audio sample, calendar, booking information.
  
• - [Galway, Ireland] Pianist-led 18-piece group featuring Sinatra-style vocalist. News, history, song list, audio, personnel, recordings.
  
• - Richmond, Virginia based 12 piece big band. Includes band profile and upcoming events.
  
• - Fifteen piece big-band from southern California. Appearance schedule, booking information, band profile, information on their new CD, photo album, fan comments, links.
  
• - Washington DC based. Member profiles, biography, album review, booking and contact information, music samples, reviews.
  
• - Four-piece dixieland band from Northern, New Jersey playing hot jazz from the 20's and 30's. Profile and contact information.
  
• - [Memphis, TN, US] Fourteen-piece band. CD information, upcoming performances, links, photos, song list, booking information.
  
• - Texas big band. Profile, merchandise, audio samples, guest book, booking information, links.
  
• - Biographical site by Kent Lundberg details the trumpeter's career including his noted arrangements for the Count Basie Orchestra (including his best-known composition, "Cute") and recordings with his own orchestra such as "Coral Reef."
  
• - Detroit big band. Song list, upcoming events, profile, CD, sound clips, booking information.
  
• - A 17-piece band from Victoria, British Columbia playing swing music of the 30's and 40's as well as contemporary rock and latin. History, audio samples and booking information.
  
• - Based in Vancouver, Canada, this 17-piece jazz ensemble is available for functions and plays swing selections from the 40s to the modern day. Schedule, testimonials.
  
• - Minnesota band based in Minneapolis/St. Paul plays modern jazz as well as Basie and Ellington. Contains a band history, CD information, a list of members, and reviews.
  
• - Big band with twenty pieces plus two vocalists plays for weddings, corporate events, festivals and hotel gigs in Ireland from a base in Maynooth. Personnel, song list, audio demos, gig schedule.
  
• - [South Tyneside, UK] Volunteer group of more than 20 pieces, run by members and elected committee. Photos, gigs, history.
  
• - Atlanta 19 piece big band. Offers a mailing list, upcoming event schedule, band member biographies, news, a song list, Real Audio samples, and a list of other big bands on the web.
  
• - Sixteen-piece orchestra from North Star Academy of Performing Arts in Refrewshire, Scotland, with trumpets, mellophones, baritones, rhythm instruments, and two saxophones. Personnel, schedule.
  
• - Twenty-piece community band based in Vermilion, Ohio. Photos from dates at the Lake Erie Lanes Lounge.
  
• - Trumpeter-led Boston-area swing and dance orchestra. FAQ, schedule, songlist.
  
• - Neither a whimper nor a big bang, this nineteen-piece ensemble is made up of rocket scientists and technicians from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena, California. Photos and newspaper reviews of tunes like "Fly Me to the Moon."
  
• - Smooth singing bandleader known for hits such as "Racing With the Moon." Sheet music gallery, publicity photos including shots taken at Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox, links to band personnel.
  
• - Detroit-based 17 piece big band. Performance schedule, audio clips, contact information, history.
  
• - College band founded in 1930 at Auburn University, playing swing tunes past and present. Contains a photo gallery, guest book, band history, performance schedule, alumni and reunion information, newsletter archive, song samples, repertoire, and booking an
  
• - Sydney, Australia based band playing the music of the Glenn Miller era. Photo gallery.
  
• - Corporate-sponsored swing/funk outfit in Germany led by trumpeter Thomas Siffling and comprised of employees of the financial software company. Song list, audio, history.
  
• - Drum corps influenced jazz big band from West Sussex, UK, books local events and sells recordings in US stores.
  
• - Free-wheeling ensemble based in Cape Town, South Africa, led by trombonist and composer Jannie "Hanepoot" Van Tonder and playing classic swing as well as jazz versions of mbaqanga and goema African music. Photos.
  
• - Detroit-based 18-piece band with vocalists playing classic swing arrangements. Photos, RealAudio samples including "Satin Doll" and "Blue Moon."
  
• - [Washington, DC, US] Part of the WW2 Allied Airforce Federation historical society, travels worldwide. Profile, photographs and upcoming appearances.
  
• - Saxophonist-led orchestra features vocalist Gay Hobbs at Ohio weddings and dances. Newsletter signup, radio directory, audio samples, bookings.
  
• - Nineteen-piece big band playing modern composers such as Pat Metheney and Chick Corea, based in the Midlands, UK. Photos, audio, video, reviews.
  
• - Not for profit big band composed largely of Atlanta doctors and other professionals, playing for society events and donating fees to charity, established 1960. Photos, musician biographies, inquiry form.
  
• - A 17-piece big band based in Annapolis, Maryland since 1991. The site includes photos, contact information, public appearances, song list, band history, vocalist link, and directions.
  
• - [Queensland, Australia] Students performing for festivals and concerts. Song list, MP3 audio samples, photos.
  
• - [Atlanta, GA, US] Nineteen-member big band. History, member biographies, auditions, links, photos, schedule, stories, booking and contact information, member area.
  
• - [Washington, DC] 18-piece big band established 1981, playing for dances, corporate events and concerts. Photos, history, MP3 audio, list of songs and arrangers including Wolpe, Nestico and Hefti as well as charts from Glenn Miller, Kenton and Buddy Rich.
  
• - Seventeen-piece orchestra based in Houston, Texas, performing big band and swing music. Offers band biography, audio samples, repertoire list, calendar of upcoming events and photographs.
  
• - Trombonist based in Glamorgan, UK leads a 17-piece big band as well as smaller groups for weddings, corporate events, dinner dances, concerts and festivals. Photos, sound files.
  
• - Volunteer orchestra from the Netherlands with a repertoire including Basie, Sinatra and Mintzer. Photos, audio, CD shopping, in English and Dutch.
  
• - Twenty-piece big band playing 1940s hit arrangements for events in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Band member list, performance schedule, audio song samples, photo galleries.
  
• - A 22-piece jazz ensemble playing swing, latin, funk and pop. Located in the Hudson Valley of New York. Recordings, audio samples, mailing list, calendar, song list, reviews.
  
• - Portland, Oregon area based band. Contains news, profile, recordings and information on their support of music education.
  
• - Bass trombonist Rene Laanen supplies English-language page for this precision recording group from the Netherlands. Musician photos, CDs, bookings, link to main site in Dutch.
  
• - UK-based outfit with eight brass, five reeds and four singers playing Basie, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, Jools Holland and Brian Setzer as well as original jumping jive. Photos, gig schedule.
  
• - Plays the big band sounds of the 1940's of the Marine Ballroom at The Steel Pier in Atlantic City.
  
• - Seventeen piece Basie-style jazz big band from Toronto. Biographies, schedule, contact information, audio and links.
  
• - Jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist who led a hard-driving orchestra known as the Herman Herd. Duke University archive offers brief biography and lengthy discography.
  
• - San Diego based big band. Band information, event calendar and information on their CD.
  
• - New Jersey big band. Sample songs, photos, recordings, contact information, reviews.
  
• - Ohio big band. Itinerary, member profiles, big band links, ticket information, photos.
  
• - Twenty-piece big band formed at Oxford University, now based in London and available for clubs and corporate events. E-letter signup, password-protected members area.
  
• - Pennsylvania big band available for weddings and parties. Music samples, CDs, video clips, upcoming shows, information on their radio show, biographies, links, reviews, repertoire, photo gallery, contact and booking information.
  
• - Los Angeles big band. Band member biographies, picture gallery, song list, discography and booking information.
  
• - Albany, New York band hosting a radio program on WAMC. Information about their Sinatra tribute show, current news, links to songs on MP3.com, photo gallery, links, fan mail.
  
• - [Waukesha, Wisconsin] Twenty-piece group playing original jazz compositions and arrangements as well as charts from Basie, Ellington, Herman, Kenton, Ferguson, and the more traditional swing bands. Photos, performance schedule, bookings.
  
• - An 18-20 piece dance band presenting monthly dances in Melbourne, Florida. The Band plays swing music from the 30's, 40's and 50's as well as some more contemporary numbers. Affiliated with the Melbourne Municipal Band. Band profile, track list and samp
  
• - Community big band based at the University of Glamorgan, performing for charity events throughout South Wales. Photos, repertoire.
  
• - Santa Cruz fifteen piece band. Song list, profile, contact information.
  
• - Seventeen-piece dance band based in Washington, DC playing for concerts, charity balls, weddings, and corporate events, also available with eight pieces. Testimonials, photos, audio.
  
• - Jazz ensemble with sixteen pieces plus vocalists. Performance schedule, sound samples, band member biographies and photo gallery.
  
• - [London, UK] Swing orchestra available to play for dances with flexible instrumentation up to five reeds and eight brass. Song list, history, financial support.
  
• - Sound samples, old broadcasts, discography, picture galleries and links to musicians associated with the orchestra known for work on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade. Links to the Dick Jurgens Orchestra Memorial Foundation and historical memorabilia.
  
• - Drummer leading the modern-day Gene Krupa Orchestra also offers tributes to Harry James, Buddy Rich and Nelson Riddle at venues in the US and Europe. History, shows, reviews, photos.
  
• - Ensemble under the direction of Marco Renzi plays swing and jazz by Miller and Basie as well as light music by Italian composers. Radio performance and concert schedule, sound files [MP3]. In Italian and English.
  
• - [Los Angeles, CA, US] Fully professional group led by trombonist and Yamaha clinician Gary Cole. Gigs in the US and Europe, clients, venues, photos.
  
• - One of Chicago's premiere big bands playing the music of Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, and other famous bands.
  
• - Chicago based. Photo gallery, audio and video clips, guest book, a list of past engagements, and information on booking the band.
  
• - London-based 21-piece dance band including two vocalists offering beginning dance instruction before each event. Photos, contact information.
  
• - Seventeen-piece jazz big band. Photo, scheduled gigs in Richmond, Virginia.
  
• - Eighteen piece band from the Annapolis, Baltimore and Washington area. News, promotional information, CDs, audio clips, a FAQ, guest book, searchable music library, list of members, schedule and booking information.
  
• - Ontario, Canada based community group presenting three young bands divided by age of musicians.
  
• - Eighteen or nineteen piece big band from Portishead, North Somerset. Audio samples, schedule, contact information, links.
  
• - Seventeen piece big band. Profile, workshop schedule, contact information.
  
• - [Westechester, NY, US] Trumpeters Regent Scott and Gene Bensen lead band playing charts from Basie, Ellington, Ferguson, and Nestico. Photos, gig schedule, MP3 audio samples.
  
• - San Francisco Bay area seventeen-piece dance band playing big band swing and ballroom dances. Photos, song list, MP3 audio, scheduled events.
  
• - Twenty-piece orchestra made up of volunteer musicians from all walks of life.
  
• - Nineteen-piece band. Calendar, booking information, audio sample, member list.
  
• - A 12 piece big band located on Cape Cod. The band travels throughout the New England area. Includes repertoire and music samples.
  
• - South Florida based; playing music by Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and others. Profile, song list, news, booking information.
  
• - Toronto-area 18-piece dance band modeled after the big bands of Glenn Miller, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington. Photos, testimonials, online request form.
  
• - [Amston, CT, US] Fifteen piece swing band. Contains profile, schedule, a list of frequently asked questions and album information.
  
• - Group plays for concerts, weddings and parties in southern New Jersey and the Philadelphia area. Song list, personnel, upcoming shows.
  
• - Hertfordshire, England big band. History, audio samples, calendar, photos, links, guest book.
  
• - [Toronto, Canada] Playing jazz, Latin and dance music. Photos, MP3 audio.
  
• - Big band led by guitarist and composer Paul Nash. News, audio excerpts.
  
• - [San Diego, CA, US] Swing and dance band. Upcoming events, links, song list, photos.
  
• - Detroit big band. Profile, photos, audio samples, schedule, guest book, contact information.
  
• - [Melbourne, Australia] Playing charts from Goodman, Herman, Basie and Prima and vocals from Ella, Frank and Joe Williams, as a 14-piece orchestra or as an octet. Photos, schedule.
  
• - Baltimore-based group led by Sandra Dayton on vocals and Steve Richwine on trumpet. Performance schedule, band profile, song list, audio and video samples, testimonials, contact information, pictures, musician credits.
  
• - Seventeen piece band led by singing drummer, playing Latin jazz and swing, based in Southern California. Biographies, schedule, contact information.
  
• - Swedish drummer Ersson leads powerhouse Buddy Rich tribute band. Photos, audio, dates of European and Australian tours.
  
• - Massachusetts big band. Includes description, client testimonials, and music samples.
  
• - Sixteen piece big band. Upcoming dances, recordings, member profiles, mailing list, contact information, guest book, links.
  
• - Dallas-Fort Worth eighteen piece big band. History, contact information, song list.
  
• - Sixteen-piece orchestra based in Miami, Florida. Photos.
  
• - Youthful 18-piece band with vocalist based in Bath, UK, available for corporate functions, weddings and dinner dances. Sponsorship, tours.
  
• - [Toronto, Canada] Youthful band playing swing hits of the 1930s and 40s. Song list, history, photos, guest stars, tours and venues, audio.
  
• - Playing many original arrangements from the Krupa book, as well as other popular songs from the big band era.
  
• - A local big band from Madison, Ohio. Photographs, schedule, musician list, song list, links, audio samples, .
  
• - [East Anglia, UK] Features Sinatra-style vocalist. Photo, event lists, press clipping.
  
  

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