• The Birdland Big Band is a 16-piece jazz orchestra that performs at the Birdland Jazz Club in New York City. The Birdland Big Band is led by saxophonist...
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  • Ina Ray Hutton (1916-1984) (Melodears) Tommy Igoe (born 1964) (The Birdland Big Band) H Harry James (1916–1983) Galen Jeter (Dallas Jazz Orchestra) Dick...
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    original Birdland. The Birdland Big Band was created in 2006. Birdland was frequented by many of the writers of the Beat generation. Reference to Birdland is...
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  • Berry Big Band Jazz de México The Birdland Big Band - jazz Carla Bley Big Band and The Very Big Carla Bley Band – jazz, post bop Bohuslän Big Band - jazz...
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    Kenneth Ascher (category Big band pianists)
    from 5:15 to 7 at Birdland in New York City. The Birdland Big Band performs "Rainbow Connection", arranged by Lew Anderson. Three for the Show, m & arr....
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    "Hitting all the key notes – The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-04-21. Newsdesk, BWW (2019-06-28). "Birdland Presents The Freddy Cole Quartet...
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  • 1997, The Lew Anderson Big Band began an open-ended engagement at Birdland, then on the Upper Wide Side of Manhattan. The introduction to Birdland was made...
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    McBride in 2023. The album won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Zuraitis is also the premier vocalist for the Birdland Big Band and frequently...
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  • The Phil Collins Big Band - a side project of English rock drummer, singer and musician Phil Collins - performed in 1996 and 1998. Although best known...
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    1966[citation needed] with the formation of the Buddy Rich Big Band, also billed as the Buddy Rich Band and The Big Band Machine. Rich was known for...
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  • Sonny Igoe (category Big band drummers)
    drummer, leader of The Birdland Big Band, and music educator Tommy Igoe (Thomas Robert Igoe; born November 18, 1964) is his son. Tom Lord, The Jazz Discography...
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    with the Pérez Prado Orchestra on the LP Havana 3 A.M., recorded in February and March 1956. In 1956, he joined the Birdland Dream Band, a 14-piece big band...
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  • Birdland, was a Canadian alternative rock band active in the 1990s. The group recorded three albums under various names and had one hit single. The band...
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    New York, had regular performances at the jazz club Birdland before disbanding in 2003. The bands' recordings received several Grammy nominations and...
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    Society of Central Kentucky". Retrieved 2019-08-20. "Excited about Birdland Big Band with Tommy Igoe". Live Nation. Retrieved 2019-08-20. Ace. "COMEDY:...
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    The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935...
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  • Group 1972–1978: Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band 1979–1991: Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band 1992–2000: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance...
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    Toshiko Akiyoshi (category Big band bandleaders)
    many of her later big band albums were released only in Japan. On Monday, 29 December 2003, her band played its final concert at Birdland in New York City...
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    recorded at Birdland for the live album Summit Meeting at Birdland (1978) with Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet and Parker on saxophone. The half of the album featuring...
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    play at Birdland each Sunday night, and when his father died in 2001 Arturo became bandleader. In 2001, Wynton Marsalis – artistic director of the Jazz at...
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    player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big bands before achieving fame...
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    (13 March 2014). "Birdland review – Ceaselessly inventive critique of rock stardom". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 December 2014. "Birdland (Royal Court) –...
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    1949-50 (Grotto 495) Charlie Parker - Ballads and Birdland (Klacto (E) MG 101) Charlie Parker Big Band (Mercury MGC 609) Charlie Parker - Parker Plus Strings...
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  • Big Band Bossa Nova is a studio album by Enoch Light and His Orchestra. It was released in 1962 on Command Records (catalog no. RS 844-SD). The musicians...
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  • McNeely". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 28 April 2021. Blecha, Peter. "Birdland: Seattle's Fabled 1950s R&B Hotspot". HistoryLink. historylink.org. Retrieved...
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    move the band into its most commercially successful period. The band's biggest commercial success came from Zawinul's composition "Birdland" on the 1977...
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    Hector Martignon (category Academic staff of the Ludwigsburg University of Education)
    1996) The Foreign Affair (Candid, 1998) Refugee (Zoho Music, 2007) Live at Birdland (GMN, 2008) Second Chance (Zoho Music, 2010) The Big Band Theory...
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    founding partner of the Birdland jazz club and the Roulette Room. He was a prominent subject of investigations into organized crime and the music industry...
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    George Shearing (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    Shearing was the composer of over 300 songs, including the jazz standards "Lullaby of Birdland" and "Conception", and had multiple albums on the Billboard...
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