If that spectacle fails to fill your heart with joy, take comfort in the knowledge that at the hipper end of the style spectrum, the brilliant arrangements of big band composers and arrangers Bill Finegan, Quincy Jones and the late Gil Evans continue to fascinate jazz fans and music students. Amazingly, a sound popularised by Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller in the early 1940s can still fill our living rooms on Saturday nights, as finger-snapping 12-year old boys in tuxedos attempt to pass themselves off as Sammy Davis Jr (or should that be Sammy Davis Jr Jr?) on TV talent shows. Roll out the red carpet, dim the lights and raise the curtains - it's showtime for this big jazzy production from Fable Sounds.įable Sounds' custom Broadway Big Band Halion Player, fully loaded with 16 instruments.Thanks in part to the efforts of latter-day crooners such as Harry Connick Jr, Robbie Williams and the mighty Björk, big band and swing are far from dead in the water.
