Overview: Big Band Music and the Continentals
Big Band Music ‒ it is something very special and not often duplicated in today's music world.
Leon Jordan's Continentals is a big band that, for more than forty five years has played a wide
variety of engagements, including such places as Asheville, N.C. in the west to, the N.C. coast in
the east, Savannah, Georgia in the south and Washington, D.C. in the north. On one special occasion
the band played engagements in and near Hull, England.
Whether for the Lord Mayor of Hull, England, U.S. Senator Jessie Helms, North Carolina Governors, charities, Bob Hope celebrity shows, collegiate events, country clubs, dance clubs, happy brides and grooms, inaugural balls, etc., Leon Jordan's Continentals play music of the great Big Bands. They play what dancers and listeners want to hear, music from notable bands such as:
- Glen Miller
- Woody Herman
- Les Brown
- Harry James
- Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey
- Kaye Kyser
- Duke Ellington
- Johnny Long
- Benny Goodman
- Artie Shaw
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