Jazz Articles about Mike Conrad

All Angles Orchestra: New Angle

by Jack Bowers
August 13, 2017

There was a time not long ago when most big bands fell more or less into fairly well-defined cubicles. There were, for example, those that were best known as dance bands (Glenn Miller, Harry James, the Dorsey brothers, Artie Shaw, Ray Anthony and so on), and, on the other hand, those whose raison d'etre was jazz and swing (Basie, Herman, Kenton, Barnet, Thornhill and their peers). That was then; this is now. Like it or not, bands these days literally ...