The Big Band de Lausanne learned those parts and dressed up in red and black.
Just a few days before this concert, the WDR sent the Lausanne Big Band the parts.
The South Carolina native started with his father's big band at the age of 14.
Zawinul is onstage with the WDR Big Band from Germany and a special international rhythm section.
Bernstein mixes well-known pop songs with a lost style of jazz that predates the big band era.
Watkins was "widely considered to be the foremost British Big Band trumpet player" of all time, said Mr Biggs.
In 2008, Gerald visted Brazil with trumpeter Roy Hargrove's big band and is currently touring under his 2009 release Two-Shade.
Recently, the famed WDR Big Band in Germany commissioned Michael Abene to arrange music by Reinhardt and others for the orchestra and Lagrene.
Mingus Big Band : The party continued from the Jazz Standard, named Best Jazz Club by New York magazine in 2008.
The trumpeter played with the BBC Big Band and performed for prominent jazz musicians Johnny Dankworth, Maynard Ferguson and Benny Goodman.
Time peels away in Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel ballroom as they sway to big band tunes, soundtracks of their youth.
One great tradition is silver-haired energizer Gerald Wilson now almost 90 and his big band, up from Southern California.
Less than a year passed before he found himself leading a big band every Sunday night at the Greenwich Village basement club called Smalls.
In 1940 Driver became a big band singer and toured extensively with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) appearing in shows for the troops.
The Mingus Big Band rang in 2009 with a rousing and raucous 80-minute set before a sold-out crowd at the Jazz Standard in New York.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, "A Jazz New Year's Eve" features the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band with the singing quartet New York Voices.
He has a song with Walken called "Timeless to Me" that's in a lilting, big band style and is the only number that isn't edited by a Benihana chef.
The curiously named, four-member Don Johnson Big Band played mix 'n' match with several genres from dub to country on their self-titled, platinum-selling album (platinum in Finland being 30, 000 copies).
Mingus has contributed greatly to keeping Mingus's music alive, both in the U.S. and internationally, through the Mingus Big Band, the Mingus Orchestra and the 7-piece Mingus Dynasty, along with the competition.
In those days they used to do six shows a day and the show would usually consist of a female vocalist, male vocalist, big band, some kind of dancer and a comedian.
"I'm not recording any music but I'm going to do some shows with the big band - Blur - and just go to some fun places and play to some people, " he told the BBC.
For New Year's Eve, the Mingus Big Band picked tunes from those records to showcase Mingus' diverse repertoire, including everything from gospel hollers and church music to lush ballads, swinging dance tunes, bebop and the blues.
Most daringly, there is a performance by another tenor giant, Ben Webster, which is strictly speaking not a vocal at all, but a recording of Webster rehearsing a big band in one of his own compositions.
This performance was also a reunion for those players who were part of Los Guachos, the compact big band with whom Klein made the critically acclaimed studio albums Los Guachos II and Los Guachos III (the first volume remains unreleased).
If a full-fledged media blackout isn't feasible, then at least limit yourself to the stations that are least likely to air anything having to do with modern times: the radio stations that play big band music and old-timey radio programs.
The Mingus Big Band is a hot band at any time, and on this night, it added extra star power, featuring Ku-umba Frank Lacy on trombone and vocals, Randy Brecker on trumpet, Vincent Herring on sax, Dave Kikoski on piano and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums.
From the first throbbing bass notes by Boris Koslov in "Gunslinging Birds" to the animated trombone and vocals of Ku-umba Frank Lacy in "E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too, " and the roaring full-band choruses that close out "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, " the Mingus Big Band was on.
Alumni of Gillespie's orchestras and new players convene in the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars Big Band, with longtime Gillespie sidemen musical director Slide Hampton (trombone) and executive director John Lee (bass) running the show on New Year's Eve at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.
In later years, on stage, Hines rarely spoke about his big band, instead preferring to talk about what he called "trumpet-style piano, " in which he followed the lines of a horn soloist rather than approximating a full orchestra, as the ragtime and stride pianists were then doing.
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