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    A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a dance band, rock or pop band or jazz quartet. The term is most commonly used with a group that plays...
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  • 1896 – 11 June 1971), known professionally as Ambrose, was an English bandleader and violinist. Ambrose became the leader of a highly acclaimed British...
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  • (10 August 1904 – 4 May 1974), better known as Geraldo, was an English bandleader. He adopted the name "Geraldo" in 1930, and became one of the most popular...
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    Band School (later part of Ithaca College) in 1926, studying with famous bandleader Patrick Conway for three years before receiving a music scholarship to...
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  • George Gee is a Chinese American swing big band leader. Born in New York City, he grew up with a fascination in the big band music of the 1930s and 1940s...
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    borders changed, Hinzweiler was in Bavaria, Germany. He was the son of bandleader Daniel Schwarz and Katharina Zink.: 878–880  On 20 November 1900 Schwarz...
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    Documentary Now! and the Showtime comedy series Moonbase 8. Armisen was the bandleader and frequent drummer for the Late Night with Seth Meyers house band, the...
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    Henry Robert Hall, CBE (2 May 1898 – 28 October 1989) was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era...
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    John T. Melick Jr. (December 21, 1929 – June 25, 2021) was an American bandleader, pianist, and arranger. Melick was born and raised in North Plainfield...
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    Ed Byrne (born December 30, 1946) is an American trombonist, composer, arranger, author, and educator known for his jazz improvisations, original compositions...
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  • Daniel Schwarz (3 July 1851 – 7 March 1885) was a German trumpeter, and the band leader of the travelling Schwarz Band from Hinzweiler, Germany. His home...
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  • page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Jimmy Maxwell" bandleader – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2009) (Learn how...
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  • The Glenn Miller Orchestra is a band formed after the loss of Glenn Miller, named in memory of him and the original Glenn Miller Orchestra. There was a...
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  • Bob Loyce Moore (November 30, 1932 – September 22, 2021) was an American session musician, orchestra leader, and double bassist who was a member of the...
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  • As a bandleader, the American jazz bassist Charles Mingus released 51 albums between 1949 and 1977; as a sideman, Mingus appeared on a total of 34 albums...
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  • House Hotel. Ambrose, a strict disciplinarian, taught Heath how to be a bandleader. It was during this time that Heath became the most prominent trombone...
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    William Marshall (October 12, 1917 – June 7, 1994) was an American singer, bandleader and a motion picture actor, director and producer. Born in Chicago, Illinois...
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  • I Love a Bandleader is a 1945 American musical comedy film directed by Del Lord and starring Phil Harris, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson and Leslie Brooks...
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  • (then known as William Langford). One of his first credited recordings as bandleader was with Wynonie Harris on "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee". Morris signed...
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  • Carlos Varela was a Cuban musician. He was leader of the "Havana Madrid Orchestra" during the 1930s–1950s at New York's Havana-Madrid club on Broadway...
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    ISBN 978-0393340105. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tony Pastor (bandleader). Tony Pastor at AllMusic Tony Pastor discography at Discogs Tony Pastor...
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    1962(1962-01-08) (aged 67) Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. Genres Jazz Occupation(s) Bandleader, piano player Instrument Piano Years active 1917–1962 Formerly of Jack...
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    Louis Cato (category American bandleaders)
    Louis Cato (born May 3, 1985) is the bandleader of the Late Show Band, the house band for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Cato is a singer, songwriter...
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    Bob Crosby (category American bandleaders)
    Crosby (August 23, 1913 – March 9, 1993) was an American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats, which formed around 1935. The...
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    Nubya Garcia (category British jazz bandleaders)
    Garcia (born 1991) is a British jazz musician, saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Garcia was born in 1991 in Camden Town, London, the youngest of four...
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  • in rock simultaneously as a singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader". According to Auslander, she was "kicking down the male door in rock...
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    jazz and rock drummer. Blackman has recorded several jazz albums as a bandleader and has performed with Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron Carter, Sam...
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  • Roland Shaw (born Roland Edgar Shaw-Tomkins; 26 May 1920 – 11 May 2012) was an English composer, musical arranger, and orchestra leader. Shaw was born...
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    Phil Harris (category American bandleaders)
    Philip Harris (June 24, 1904 – August 11, 1995) was an American actor, bandleader, entertainer and singer. He was an orchestra leader and a pioneer in radio...
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  • author and illustrator (d. 1986) 1901 – Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (d. 1966) 1904 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (d. 1971) 1905...
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