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Big Band & Swing

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A few of the words

MILLER
Glenn Miller's orchestra was the best-selling recording act of the early 1940s, and his 'Moonlight Serenade' became one of the era's most enduring signatures.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ELLINGTON
Duke Ellington led his orchestra at Harlem's Cotton Club and went on to perform for Allied troops during the Second World War, taking swing to audiences across the globe.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
LINDY
The Lindy Hop, named after Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Atlantic flight, was the exuberant partner dance that swing music was practically built around.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DORSEY
Brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey both led celebrated orchestras; Tommy's warm trombone tone backed a young Frank Sinatra on some of his earliest hit recordings.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Big band swing word search, free and large-print, evoking brass, rhythm and the dance halls that dared the world to keep moving.

About Big Band & Swing

On both sides of the Atlantic, the big band sound was the heartbeat of the 1940s. Glenn Miller's smoky trombone arrangements drifted from wireless sets and packed ballrooms, lifting spirits through blackouts and uncertainty. Bandleaders like Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Artie Shaw made swing not just music but a kind of defiant joy, couples in their best clothes spinning through the Lindy Hop while the brass section soared.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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