The big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz, a style of music which became popular during the Swing Era from the [More]
Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and became a [More]
Billie Holiday – vocal Ben Webster – tenor saxophone Lester Young – tenor saxophone Vic Dickenson – trombone Gerry Mulligan – bariton saxophone Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone [More]
“Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. In 1978, Holiday’s version of the [More]