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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.
It is scored for 3 saxophones (soprano, alto and tenor), 2 trumpets, trombone, wood block, snare drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, xylophone, banjo, Hawaiian guitar, piano ...
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 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 ...
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.
The Bryan Ferry Orchestra is a retro - jazz ensemble founded and led by Bryan Ferry. They exclusively play his work in a 1920s jazz style. Ferry formed the orchestra out of a desire to focus on the melodies of his songs, and "see how they would stand up without singing". [1] Their album, The Jazz Age, was released on 26 November 2012 as a 10in ...
Jazz Tangcay. September 4, 2024 at 11:15 AM. “Whiplash” is headed to Beverly Hills. In celebration of the film’s 10th anniversary, “Whiplash: In Concert,” conducted by Oscar-winning ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉敏子 or 穐吉敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko, born 12 December 1929)[1] is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. [2] Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1984, she was the ...