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Songs for vocal jazz and jazz band?

Would any of these songs from the big band era be considered real jazz?

  • I'm making a compialation of the greatest jazz recordings of all time. I got to the big band era and I'm having a hard time distinguishing between real jazz and pop songs. For ...show more

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    Yes, they are jazz. In the big band era, jazz WAS the popular music. What is known as "pop" music today (the style) originated later than the big band era, largely derivative of rock. The term "pop music" was used as early as the 1920s, but simply as a shortened form of "popular music" which as I said before was jazz at the time.

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yeah most one can consider as real jazz

IMHO Glenn Miller's band was not very jazzy at all. Tommy Dorsey, while he played a lot of sentimental stuff, had a fairly high jazz quotient in his output. I'm not familiar with all the songs you listed above, but most of them would fit into the category of jazz.

Mike

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