initial members. The orchestra's origins lie in the Big Band of the Swiss Jazz School, the oldest college for jazz music in Switzerland (which has been part...
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Maria Schneider (musician) (redirect from The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra)
Lynn Schneider (born November 27, 1960) is an American composer and jazz orchestra leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards. Born in Windom, Minnesota...
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The Dallas Jazz Orchestra (DJO) is an American jazz big band based in Dallas, Texas. Founded by Galen Jeter and Thom Mason in 1973, the DJO was once called...
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Jim McNeely (category American jazz composers)
(Cologne, Germany), the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra (Sweden) and the Swiss Jazz Orchestra. McNeely also leads his own tentet, his own trio, and appears as...
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Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually...
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Alphorn (redirect from Swiss alphorn)
Solothurn, Switzerland International Alphorn Festival at Nendaz, Canton Valais, Switzerland VSP orkestra & Arkady Shilkloper alphorn jazz & improvisations...
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Ladyva (category Swiss jazz composers)
also known as Vanessa G; born 8 December 1988) is a Swiss musician, boogie woogie, blues and jazz pianist, singer and composer. Ladyva started playing...
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Swiss jazz singer, 59 (cancer) January 26 Dean Brown, American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician, 68 (cancer) Michel Hausser, French jazz vibraphonist...
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Barry Guy (redirect from London Jazz Composers Orchestra)
early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe. He studied at the...
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Billy Cobham (category Mahavishnu Orchestra members)
Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He was...
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