Larry Clinton and His Orchestra

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Larry Clinton and His Orchestra was a popular American swing-era big band known for its sophisticated arrangements and hit recordings in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

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Label Occurrences
Larry Clinton and His Orchestra canonical 4

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf big band
musical ensemble
swing band
activePeriodEnd early 1940s
activePeriodStart late 1930s
alsoKnownAs Larry Clinton Orchestra NERFINISHED
associatedWithEra swing era
audience American popular music listeners
bandLeader Larry Clinton NERFINISHED
basedIn New York City
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre big band jazz
swing
hasLeaderRole trumpeter-arranger Larry Clinton NERFINISHED
influencedBy contemporary swing bands
languageOfPerformance English
notableFor hit recordings in the early 1940s
hit recordings in the late 1930s
sophisticated arrangements
partOf American popular music history
performedAt ballrooms
dance halls
primaryActivity dance music performance
styleCharacteristic emphasis on melody
refined arrangements
smooth ensemble sound
timePeriod 20th century
typicalInstrumentation brass section
reed section
rhythm section

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Larry Clinton and His Orchestra
Description of subject: Larry Clinton and His Orchestra was a popular American swing-era big band known for its sophisticated arrangements and hit recordings in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Larry Clinton led Larry Clinton and His Orchestra
Because of You firstPopularizedBy Larry Clinton and His Orchestra
Because of You performedBy Larry Clinton and His Orchestra
Because of You recordedBy Larry Clinton and His Orchestra