Band Information
The Solomon Douglas Swingtet
Solomon Douglas is a jazz pianist and bandleader, whose various bands have played at countless swing dance events and music festivals in North America, Asia, and Australia in the past ten years. His experience as a swing dancer and dance instructor gives him an understanding unique among musicians of the music of the Swing Era, and his three-month tenure in 2006 as the pianist in the world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra left him with a special fondness for the big-band music of World War II.
The Solomon Douglas Swingtet is a ten-piece dance band whose repertoire is rooted in that of the Basie band and that of the Ellington band, with other big-band standards and classic jazz tunes thrown in as well. The Solomon Douglas Swingtet makes frequent appearances at large venues such as the Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom (DC) and the Century Ballroom (Seattle), and has released three highly-acclaimed CDs in the past four years: Swingmatism (2006), Live at the Legion (2009, featuring trumpeter Bria Skonberg), and Ain't No School Like the Old School (2010).
