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improvisation, bigbands relied on written compositions and arrangements. They gave a greater role to bandleaders, arrangers, and sections of instruments...
became a member ofbigbands led by Bunny Berigan and Artie Shaw. Rich considered himself a featured performer and disliked bandleaders. He claimed that...
the top of the listof virtuoso jazz bandleaders. The band was showcased on the Burns and Allen program every week. In 1940, at the height of his popularity...
Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style ofbigbands and bandleaders such...
disappeared December 15, 1944; declared dead December 16, 1945) was an Americanbigband conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist...
Talking Heads were an American new wave band that formed in 1975 in New York City. The band was composed of David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Frantz...
an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleaderof the bigband era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his...
creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a bigband, using arrangers to broaden their...
BigBand Theory is an album by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1993. The AllMusic...
The Allman Brothers Band was an American blues rock band from Macon, Georgia. Formed in March 1969 by brothers Duane (guitar) and Gregg Allman (organ,...
continues[when?] to be active as a bandleader and musician. His later works tended to break away from the BigBand jazz style of his earlier days, ranging from...
15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a bigband to great commercial success from...
a seven-piece New Orleans-style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a bigband group in the 1940s, helped to popularize...
American clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing". From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing bigbands in...
an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for...
an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy...
From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for Fletcher Henderson's bigband that shaped the swing...
1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing...
One: The Bandleaders". BearManor Media – via Google Books. Fratallone, Stephen (March 14, 2018). "Connections in Swing: Volume One: The Bandleaders". BearManor...
(June 13, 1905 – June 2, 1997), was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. He is also the grandfather of musician Theo Croker. Doc Cheatham was...
– June 6, 1999) was an Americanbandleader. His band frequented dance halls throughout the United States during the bigband era and reached a wide audience...
group Paperdoll, indie band from NYC fronted by Asian American Teresa Lee The Slants, first all Asian American dance rock band/victors in a major U.S...
popular children's television series Big Blue Marble. In the early 1970s, Murphy was the leader of the soul/R&B cover band WAM. They gigged in the New York...
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