Swing with us here on Deeper Roots on a Friday morning, one week ahead of the Christmas festivities. The big band sound is that apple pie sound that grew out of the traveling musicians and dance hall bands of the 1920s. From the radio to ballrooms across the land, as the jazz orchestras grew in size, the arrangements had to be formalized to avoid mass confusion. The arranger became the focal point of the band. Improvisation during solos was written into the arrangements but their location and duration were controlled and the vocal stylings grew around the easy flowing style of the evolving jazz that would become known as ‘Swing’. Tune in for two hours of exploration of a century of America’s music.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benny Goodman | King Porter Stomp | RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's |  |
| 2 | Benny Carter (With Lionel Hampton Orchestra) | I'm in the Mood for Swing | RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's | |
| 3 | Chick Webb | Go Harlem | Stompin' At The Savoy | |
| 4 | Cab Calloway | The Jumpin' Jive | Best Of The Big Bands | |
| 5 | Benny Goodman | When Buddha Smiles | Stompin' at the Savoy | |
| 6 | Count Basie | Doggin' Around | Ken Burns Jazz: Count Basie | |
| 7 | Artie Shaw & His Orchestra / Artie Shaw's Symphony Swing | Begin The Beguine (LP Version) | The 30s: Hollywood's Best | |
| 8 | Glenn Miller Orchestra | In The Mood | Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3] | |
| 9 | Woody Herman | Woodchopper's Ball | Swingingest Sounds Ever Heard – The Best of the Big Bands | |
| 10 | Benny Goodman & His Orchestra | Why Don't You Do Right | Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. | |
| 11 | Charlie Barnet | Skyliner | Swingingest Sounds Ever Heard – The Best of the Big Bands | |
| 12 | Les Brown | Bizet Has His Day | Best of the Big Bands | |
| 13 | Woody Herman & His Orchestra | Four Brothers | Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. | |
| 14 | Ella Fitzgerald | When My Sugar Walks Down the Street | Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 | |
| 15 | Glenn Miller & His Orchestra | Tuxedo Junction | The Centennial Collection Disc 1 | |
| 16 | Benny Goodman & His Orchestra | Let's Dance | Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. | |
| 17 | Duke Ellington | Take The A Train | Watch The Closing Doors – A History Of New Yorks Musical Melting Pot Vol 1 1945-59 (CD 1) | |
| 18 | Tony Pastor | Bell Bottom Trousers | Nipper's Greatest Hits – The 40's Vol 2 | |
| 19 | Benny Goodman | Sing, Sing, Sing (Part I) | Sing, Sing, Sing | |
| 20 | Woody Herman | Apple Honey | The Essence of Woody Herman | |
| 21 | Glenn Miller & His Orchestra | Moonlight Serenade | The Centennial Collection Disc 1 | |
| 22 | Artie Shaw | Stardust | Ray Charles – Music that Matters to Him | |
| 23 | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | I'll Be Seeing You | Kiss the Boys Goodbye: Classic Songs from World War II, Vol.1 | |
| 24 | Tommy Dorsey | Opus One | Stompin' At The Savoy | |
| 25 | Glenn Miller & His Orchestra | A String of Pearls | The Centennial Collection Disc 1 | |
| 26 | Benny Goodman | Stompin' At The Savoy | Stompin' At The Savoy | |
| 27 | The Andrew Sisters | Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy | Double Goldies [CD2] | |
| 28 | Artie Shaw | I Got the Sun in the Morning | The Artie Shaw Story – Disc 4 – Little Jazz | |
| 29 | Harry James | You Made Me Love You | Time-Life Swing Era – 1940-1941 [Disc 1] | |
| 30 | Doris Day/Les Brown | Sentimental Journey | Those Wonderful Years: Sentimental Journey 1930's & 1940's | |
