Each band had its own arranger, who wrote the music. Although there were still some improvised solos in swing music, playing the parts that were written by the arranger was very important.

The Gordon Dooley Dance Orchestra Music includes the complete scores and parts for the arrangements used by The Gordon Dooley Orchestra. The parts, stored by arrangement in book order, include 182 ...

D An energetic happy tune, continuing the style of my previous song "Super swing-bit orchestra" Big-band meets chip-tune and ...

He was also influenced by the music his African-American friends sang in the cotton fields and later by Hispanic musicians in New Mexico. And he was influenced by “swing” music—an offshoot ...

Justin Pearson (Struggle, the Locust) ended up forming a new record label, Three One G, to release music by both Swing Kids and Eric Allen's band Unbroken. “Unbroken was Struggle’s sister band ...

In 1970, singer and guitarist Ray Benson formed Western swing band Asleep ... and the 2009 Americana Music Award for Lifetime Achievement in Performance. Though the band’s lineup has changed ...

"I don't get 'round to hearing those other bands much," he declared ... very long over his reply. "Swing is an emotional element that happens after the music has stopped," he observed, "and ...