Jazz Articles about Main Stream Power Band

Main Stream Power Band: A Date with Swing

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 1999

With swing making a mini–comeback in the States and abroad, here’s a high–quality band from Germany that powers its way through no less than 24 well–crafted charts that should have most lovers of swing on their feet and dancing before you can say “Tommy Dorsey.” While many of the songs on the band’s second release, A Date with Swing, are relatively unknown, there are four by Neal Hefti, three of which (“Whirlybird,” “Cute,” “Pony Tail”) are from the Basie book; ...