big bands

基本解釋

Though rock-and-roll had not yet swamped it, jazz big bands were no longer commercially viable.
盡管搖滾樂還沒有完全侵人，但大型爵士樂隊在商業(yè)上不再風光了。
So from ragtime's syncopation and the blues scales to big bands and improvisation, jazz has some complicated roots.
所以，從散拍音樂的切分音和藍調(diào)音階到大樂團和即興演奏，爵士的起源還真是復雜。
I wanted to play with this one, and I feel like I got to - both my parents, parents were…in big bands, so I've always had a passion for jazz.
我像這張中發(fā)揮一下，我感覺自己必須- 我的父母都參加了知名樂隊，所以我總是喜歡爵士。
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Or he missed them. He had decided he did not like the music of the big bands.
And on six Sunday nights a year, ballroom dancers from as far away as St.Louis - two states away in Missouri - once again head to downtown Indianapolis to swing to the music of big bands and rekindle memories of long-ago dances and romances at the Roof.
Arcade Fire starting opening in concerts for major bands like U2 and working with big names like David Bowie.

Because by the time we moved out to Long Island, there were no more big bands really to speak of.
NPR: Patti Austin, Singing Gershwin's Praises