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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.
The fusion of jazz's rhythmic and instrumental characteristics with the scale and structure of an orchestra, made orchestral jazz distinct from the musical genres that preceded its emergence. Its development contributed both to the popularization of jazz, as well as the critical legitimization of jazz as an art form. History.
It was composed by Nick LaRocca and Larry Shields, and first recorded as "At the Jass Band Ball" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band on September 3, 1917, in New York and released as an Aeolian Vocalion single, A1205. The instrumental was rerecorded on March 19, 1918, and was released as a Victor 78 single, Victor 18457, Matrix #B-21583/1, with ...
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34, is a 1945 musical composition by Benjamin Britten with a subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell. It was based on the second movement, "Rondeau", of the Abdelazer suite. It was originally commissioned for the British educational documentary film called Instruments of the Orchestra ...
Occupation (s) Musician. Instrument. Piano. Labels. Adair Music Group, Green Hill, Village Square Music. Website. www .beegieadair .com. Bobbe Gorin " Beegie " Adair ( née Long, December 11, 1937 – January 23, 2022) was an American jazz pianist and bandleader, whose career spanned more than 60 years.
The Jazz Age is the fourteenth studio album by English singer Bryan Ferry released in 2012. [ 1][ 4] It was co-produced by Ferry and Rhett Davies, with arrangements by Colin Good. The album is a re-recording of some of Ferry's compositions played in the jazz style of the 1920s by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra. The 13 songs have been chosen from 11 ...
The first version of the song was recorded in Hollywood in 1936 and performed as an instrumental by Barney Bigard and His Jazzopators. [1] Two takes were recorded, of which the first (Variety VA-515-1) was published. The band members were: Cootie Williams – trumpet; Juan Tizol – trombone; Barney Bigard – clarinet; Harry Carney ...
Arturo O'Farrill (born June 22, 1960) is a jazz musician, the son of Latin jazz musician, arranger and bandleader Chico O'Farrill, [ 1] and pianist, composer, and director for the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. [ 2] He is best known for his contributions to contemporary Latin jazz (more specifically Afro-Cuban jazz ), having received Grammy Awards ...