Something I'm contemplating is linking to CDNow.com or Amazon.com as a resource for connecting to this type of music. Write in and let me know if you think this is a good idea or a bad idea.

Swing music is apparently back "in" now -- I'm glad you've all come around to my way of thinking...

• First and foremost, arguably my favorite big band leader, the incomparable Duke Ellington has some sites on the web that are "beyond category":
  • This biography site by G. Schirmer is a good starting point
  • A series of links to Ellington related materials on this site from Northwestern University's jazz station.
  • The Edward Kennedy Ellington Pages, edited and hosted by David N. Smith are an excellent set of resources.
  • The Duke Ellington Society has recently gone online and it's a fabulous resource.
• (Louis) Armstrong House and Archives
• An excellent Benny Goodman site by dusty Reagan.
• Paul's Big Band site is quite thorough,and chock full of sound files, so please go check it out!
• Computers Plus Big Band Midi Page -- check them out
• The First Lady of Jazz, Ella Fitzgerald has a nice site.
• This is a fairly detailed listing of Big Band resources on the web.
• Gone but never forgotten is Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, who has several sites:
  • Ol' Blue Eyes.com is cool. Send yer pallies a Sinatra-gram.
  • A Frank Sinatra Page by Joseph Berg -- I would go so far as to say THE Frank Sinatra Page.
  • Official Sinatra Family Web Site
  • And use the lingo, Charley... Check out the Rat Pack Lexicon
  
• Discjockey.com -- Let's you listen to streaming music over the Internet. This a link to their forties section.
• Cole Wide Web - The Cole Porter Resource Site
• We wouldn't be doing justice to all of the fine modern era swing bands that are part of the relatively recent swing revival if we left them out...
  • The Brooklyn Bums
  • Mora's Modern Rhythmists -- they play some of the older swing stuff, before it was the popular music -- quite catchy...
  • Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums
  • Wally's Swing World is Santa Cruz's swing band!
  • Tom Cunningham Orchestra! -- the DC Area's premeire swing band.
  • Swingerhead Home Page
• Once you hear the music you gotta dance, and SwingHop is where to go in the DC area to find out.
• The Spanish Ballroom in DC's Glen Echo Park is one of those places!
• PA65K Version 3 -- that's right -- even swing hits are getting websites now! No, seriously, this site is way cool. Check out this swing site.
• SwingSet.Net -- Swing Dance, Swing Bands, Swing Swing Swing!
• Swing & Rockabilly - Historical Reenactment - Net Links from About.com
• Check out more swinging type of links on the Retro Page.

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