I'm thinking, not a bad idea, the big-band sound, or something like that.

He loved that big-band sound, so every song had that big-band sound.

The following year he put out a groundbreaking collection, "Music for Dreaming," which combined melodic strings with a big-band sound.

But Mr. Herman continued to play amplified music, combining it with the traditional big-band sound.

Tuxedos are mismatched with tennis shoes, and music switches from a 17th-century passacaglia to the 1930's big-band sound.

A heart attack in 1959 slowed his pace, and the big-band sound was disappearing from records, radio and television.

But the Arbuthnot-by-the-Sea had its own band, which imitated in a cold, Maine way the big-band sound.

H. Celine Williams, the musical director, brings a big-band sound to a handful of instruments.

Intentionally or no, the men hit a sympathetic rhythm as the music changed to a big-band sound.

We couldn't expect a big-band sound here.