It can shift from hale swing rhythm and the booming big-band style of the 1950's to attenuated passages with muted brass and flutes, intended to give you gooseflesh.

As a young man, he was nicknamed Little Bird for his musical resemblance to Charlie Parker, and he helped steer jazz from the big-band style into bebop.

He also performs with his own big band in a more traditional and yet nontraditional big-band style.

It is brief, agreeably strident music that cuts big-band style into fragments and reassembles them loosely.

Johnny Windhurst (November 5, 1926 - October 2, 1981) was a jazz trumpet player, who played primarily in the swing and big-band styles.

And none of the styles seemed in any way disjunctive; modern American music took elements of the big-band style and the blues, and split them up.

He helped transform juju from street music played by a few instruments into a big-band style that can shimmer and crackle.

The first comprises children's movie-musical songs rendered in New Orleans and modern big-band style; the second is a solo voice-and-piano snapshot of where he has come to now.

Starting in 1964, the trumpeter and band leader Don Ellis sought to fuse traditional big-band styles with rhythms borrowed from Indian and Near Eastern music.

Mr. Brown, from Texas, brought together a handful of traditions, from the electric guitar playing of early blues musicians to the jump and big-band styles.