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Jazz, swing. Years active. 1988–present. Labels. Blue Engine. Website. www.jazz.org. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is an American big band and jazz orchestra led by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The orchestra is part of Jazz at Lincoln Center, a performing arts organization in New York City.
The Metropole Orkest (transl. Metropole Orchestra) is a jazz and pop orchestra based in the Netherlands, and is the largest full-time ensemble of its kind in the world. A hybrid orchestra, it combines jazz, big band and classical symphony orchestra styles. Comprising between 52 and 97 musicians, it is versatile across many musical forms, and is ...
Piano Quartet, Yoshi's 1994. (1994) Composition No. 175 / Composition No. 126: Trillium Dialogues M is a live album by composer and pianist Anthony Braxton with the Creative Jazz Orchestra, performing two extended compositions recorded at the London Jazz Festival in 1994 and released on the Leo label. [1] [2]
The Cinematic Orchestra is a British nu jazz and downtempo music group created in 1999 by Jason Swinscoe and later involving his music collaborator Dominic Smith. [1][2] The group is signed to independent record label Ninja Tune. The Cinematic Orchestra have produced four studio albums, Motion (1999), Every Day (2002), Ma Fleur (2007) and To ...
Orchestral jazz or symphonic jazz is a form of jazz that developed in New York City in the 1920s. Early innovators of the genre, such as Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, include some of the most highly regarded musicians, composers, and arrangers in all of jazz history. [ 1 ] The fusion of jazz's rhythmic and instrumental characteristics ...
The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra ( SJMO) is the national jazz orchestra of the United States. It is based at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., where it is the orchestra-in-residence. The SJMO was founded in 1990 with the dual mission of performing and preserving American jazz masterworks and raising public ...
Oop-Pop-A-Da. (1988) Live at the Royal Festival Hall. (1990) Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989. (1989) Live at the Royal Festival Hall is an album by Dizzy Gillespie and the United Nation Orchestra. It won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1991. [1] The concert was also released on DVD.
Structure. The suite has three movements: It is scored for 3 saxophones (soprano, alto and tenor), 2 trumpets, trombone, wood block, snare drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, xylophone, banjo, Hawaiian guitar, piano, violin and double bass. [2] The premiere was on March 24, 1934. [2] A performance takes about 8 minutes.