a deep love for show business and this influenced Woody at an early age. As a child, Woody Herman worked as a singer and tap-dancer in vaudeville, then...

Director Al Viola - Guitar Gene Cherico - Bass Irving Cottler - Drums Woody Herman was not present at the concerts Alto Saxophone: Jerry Dodgian, Frank...

Woody Herman–1963 is a 1963 studio album by Woody Herman and his big band. The album peaked at 136 on the Billboard 200. Ken Dryden reviewed the album...

arranger. She began her career as a vibraphonist in the 1940s, playing with Woody Herman (from 1944 to 1945), the Hip Chicks (1945), Mary Lou Williams (1946)...

his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time...

Parker, was a heroin addict. According to Gene Lees, Chaloff was the Woody Herman band's 'chief druggist as well as its number one junkie. Serge would...

recorded more than 400 times. Some of the best-known versions are by Woody Herman, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Johnston, Emil Newman, David Rose, Billy Eckstine...

Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and...

John Brahm and starring Sonja Henie and Cesar Romero. It also features Woody Herman and His Orchestra. Norwegian millionaire Ostgaard (S.Z. Sakall) and his...

Kaye, by Louis Prima, by "Smilin'" Jack Smith, by Ray McKinley, and by Woody Herman. The Andrews Sisters and Danny Kaye recording was made September 27,...

playing clarinet as a child and took his stage name from clarinetist Woody Herman. He has performed publicly at least since the late 1960s, including with...

The song was released as an RCA 78 single by Glenn Miller in 1944. Woody Herman also released the song as a single and as a V-Disc. The music for Glenn...

1950) is an American trombonist and composer. He was a trombonist with Woody Herman (1972–1976) and briefly with Chick Corea before concentrating on session...

"Four Brothers" saxophone section of Woody Herman's second band, and has since been covered by many groups. Woody Herman recorded it on December 27, 1947...

Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Earl Hines, Bunny Berigan, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, Glenn Miller...

2014) was an American jazz trumpeter and singer who was a member of Woody Herman's band from 1941 to 1943. She led her own band in 1943. At the end of...

"Woody 'n' You" is a 1942 jazz standard written by Dizzy Gillespie as an homage to Woody Herman. It was one of three arrangements Gillespie made for Herman's...

2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton and worked in the studios of the recording and television...

Woody Allen has acted in, directed, and written many films starting in the 1960s. His first film was the 1965 comedy What's New Pussycat?, which featured...

lead trumpet with Maynard Ferguson in 1958, Stan Kenton in 1959, and Woody Herman's Thundering Herd during the 1960s. One of Chase's charts from this period...

master Vilim Herman (born 1949), Croatian university professor, politician and former representative in the Croatian Parliament Woody Herman (1913–1987)...

on November 21, 1941, but dropped to #21 the next week, then off. The Woody Herman recording was released by Decca Records as catalog number 4030 in October...

Angeles, California) Happiness Is University of Michigan Marching Band Woody Herman Andy Williams Tommy Walker (partial) "Put on a Happy Face" (University...

1939 jazz composition by Joe Bishop and Woody Herman. The up-tempo blues tune in D-flat major was the Woody Herman Orchestra's biggest hit, as well as the...

– December 31, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. He played on over 250 recordings...

Encore Woody Herman–1963 is a 1963 live album by Woody Herman and his big band recorded at Basin Street West Jazz Club in Los Angeles, California, in May...

Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Goodman's future rival Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman, who departed the Isham Jones band in 1936 to start his own band. Several...

Pandit, the 1960s rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, bandleader Woody Herman, and Disco/R&B singer Sylvester. In 1949, Jack Sheedy, owner of a San...

Song" that same year. In 1966, Ascher joined the Woody Herman Orchestra as arranger and pianist. Herman hired Ascher — on the advice of Frank Foster — to...

Nat Towles. He composed and arranged while working as a trumpeter for Woody Herman providing the bandleader with versions of "Woodchopper's Ball" and "Blowin'...