# Any Bach/Beethoven "Equals" In The Here And Now?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 26, 2009, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-bach-beethoven-equals-in-the-here-and-now/515159 "2009-10-26T11:14:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-bach-beethoven-equals-in-the-here-and-now/515159/41 "2009-11-03T21:01:50Z")

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> [@Saintly\_Loser](#):
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> I’d say big band music is a subset of jazz (maybe with more pop in it than, say, bop).

I want to elaborate on this a bit. There’s a lot of variety in big band music. There was Glenn Miller, for example, who was on the pop side (and \*String of Pearls \*is one of my favorite tunes). Ellington, a bit less so. The Goodman band could play pop stuff with the best of them, but the subsets of the Goodman band were pretty hardcore jazz, especially when Charlie Christian was included. And Goodman himself could play classical music quite well when he wanted to (I believe he recorded Haydn’s _Trumpet Concerto_, as did Wynton Marsalis).

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