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bandleader

DEFINITIONS OF: bandleader

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n the leader of a dance band

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Benjamin David Goodman
United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986)
Woodrow Charles Herman
United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987)
Alton Glenn Miller
United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)
Type of:
conductor, director, music director
the person who leads a musical group
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