• Little Band Big Jazz is an album by trumpeter Conte Candoli's All Stars recorded in 1960 and released on Crown Records. Following the success of pianist...
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    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...
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  • Instrumental Jazz Performance – Large Group or Soloist with Large Group 1972–1978: Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band 1979–1991: Best Jazz Instrumental...
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    has been the band's Musical Director since 1977, American jazz trombonist Jiggs Whigham, and guest musical directors. The BBC Big Band’s origins lie in...
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    Coogan during the 1930s. His jazz career began in 1937 with clarinetist Joe Marsala. He became a member of the big bands led by Bunny Berigan and Artie...
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    Big Sugar is a band formed in Toronto in 1988 by Gordie Johnson, the band's lead singer, lead guitarist and main songwriter. Between 1996 and 2016, Big...
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    and Joe Henderson. The band is one of the premiere large jazz ensembles in Denmark, the Danish Radio Big Band (aka DR Big Band) is a dynamic ensemble...
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  • Top 40 material for a more thematic project, with a focus on classic big band, jazz, and swing music. Chicago left Reprise Records and started their own...
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  • dance band and big band jazz idioms, ghost bands typically perform the repertoire of the original band. Exceptions, however, include the Mingus Big Band, which...
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  • Big Band Holidays is a 2015 Christmas album by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis, released on October 30, 2015 by Blue Engine Records...
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