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1996 – Big Band Trane (CD-515) is the 10th consecutive recording by the Bob Mintzer Big Band for DMP; 1997 – Alto (CD-521) by Joe Beck & Ali Ryerson is the first commercial recording captured with Sony's DSD recording technology which samples music at 2.8224 MHz (64 x the 44.1 kHz compact disc).
While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos.
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular.
The Japanese electronic band Yellow Magic Orchestra were pioneers in sampling, [26] [27] [28] constructing music by cutting fragments of sounds and looping them. [28] Their album Technodelic (1981) is an early example of an album consisting mostly of samples.
Big band: Big band is a type of musical ensemble, in essence a jazz orchestra, that typically consists of at least ten musicians and four sections. 1910s -> British dance band: British dance band is a genre of popular jazz and dance music that developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s and 1930s. 1920s -> Cape jazz
The music for the video game Grim Fandango was composed and produced by Peter McConnell and published by LucasArts in 1998. The soundtrack is a mix of South American folk music, jazz, swing and big band sounds, for the game story filled with adventure and intrigue set in a unique combination of film noir and Mexican folklore's Day of the Dead.
Ten songs made famous by The Allman Brothers Band receive big band arrangements. [1] The album was inspired by Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band 1994 tribute album The Music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays. [2] Like the Allman Brothers, Big Band of Brothers is composed of musicians from the southeastern U.S.
The following is a list of big band musicians Ray Anthony (b. 1922) Buster Bailey (1902–1967) [1] Count Basie (1904–1984) [2] John Beasley (b. 1960) ...