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Swingtime Big Band

Active since: 1972

Dedicated to the performance of America's greatest popular standards, SWINGTIME BIG BAND is a 20-piece authentic swing band comprised of master interpreters of music from the Swing Era (mid-1930s through early 1950s) and beyond.  Hailed by The New York Times as “Musicians who make the sounds of the pre-rock era rock,” and by Newsday as “Long Island’s leading professional big band…dedicated to the Great American Songbook,” the ensemble specializes in performing Big

Band classics as originally recorded, bringing to life the style and the spirit of this uniquely American music for today’s audiences to experience in living color.  In recognition of the band’s efforts in “perpetuating, promoting & performing with integrity the sounds of the Big Band Era,” SWINGTIME was officially honored by the Big Band Hall of Fame in 2007 as “Ambassadors of Big Band Music.”

Steve Shaiman: Swingtime Big Band bandleader, artistic director and genre ambassador extraordinaire

by Doug Hall
June 21, 2026

Our guest is Steve Shaiman, bandleader, saxophonist & artistic director of the Swingtime Big Band. Mr. Shaiman's critically acclaimed 20 piece swing big band is celebrating 50 years of performances with concert audiences, and ballroom dancers alike, with authentic recreations of timeless swing music with such iconic bandleaders as Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Glen Miller, Benny ...