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Originally Posted by RicNic
Do jazz bands play at the squares?
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A huge number of people here know how to do at least a little swing dancing and slow dancing. They do it to rock—why not do it to the music it was meant for. I’d love to have bands that are vocal-based and play the Great American Songbook—like what Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald sang. Composers like Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, and the Gershwins. That’s my favorite music by far. It’s true that it wouldn’t draw as many people—especially people who don’t live here and aren’t old enough to live here. Piano, bass, a jazz guitar, a sensitive and quiet jazz drummer, and a good singer. That’s all we would need.