Tuxedo Junction
Context
Composition by Erskine Hawkins, Julian Dash and Bill Johnson, recorded by Hawkins's orchestra on July 18, 1939, in New York (Bluebird). The title comes, according to one explanation, from a streetcar crossing at Tuxedo Park near a club in Birmingham, Alabama. Glenn Miller's version, recorded on February 5, 1940, reached number one on Billboard in 1940.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.