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The Brian Setzer Orchestra
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
American band
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Count Basie Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Frank Foster
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer
American singer
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Lucky Millinder
Lucky Millinder
American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader
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Frank Wess
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
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Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
American big band leader and musician
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Skeets Tolbert
Skeets Tolbert
American musician
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Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller
American big band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (1904-1944)
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Charlie Barnet
Charlie Barnet
American saxophonist, composer, bandleader
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Chummy MacGregor
Chummy MacGregor
American musician
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Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
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Bernie Dresel
Bernie Dresel
American drummer
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Joe Newman
Joe Newman
American musician
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Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
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Freddie Green
Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
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Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
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Lenny Hambro
Lenny Hambro
Jazz Musician
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George Paxton
George Paxton
American musician
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Panama Francis
Panama Francis
American musician
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Will Bradley
Will Bradley
American trombonist
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Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack
American musician
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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
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Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
US big band led by Glenn Miller (1937-1942)
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Joe Loss
Joe Loss
British musician
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Bill Holman
Bill Holman
American composer, arranger, and conductor
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Frank Rehak
Frank Rehak
American musician
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Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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Harry Edison
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
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Nat Towles
Nat Towles
jazz musician
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Jimmy Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey
American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of Tommy Dorsey
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Ted Heath
Ted Heath
British musician
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Taft Jordan
Taft Jordan
Jazz trumpeter
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Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
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Earl Hines
Earl Hines
American jazz pianist
George Gee
American musician

George Gee

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George Gee is a Chinese American swing big band leader. Born in New York City, he grew up with a fascination in the big band music of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1980, he founded the retro 17-piece George Gee Swing Orchestra (formerly known as the Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra). He performed with this orchestra at the 1995 Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival in New York City.

In 1998, he formed the ten-piece Jump, Jive & Wailers, named after the Louis Prima song "Jump, Jive an' Wail." Gee is popular with lindy hoppers worldwide, including legendary Savoy Ballroom dancers Frankie Manning and Dawn Hampton.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gee and his orchestra played a weekly show at Swing 46 in New York City.