For "Nice Work, " she and her creative team plunged into 1920s music, listening to tunes by big-band jazz innovator Fletcher Henderson and greats like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.

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The trumpeter played with the BBC Big Band and performed for prominent jazz musicians Johnny Dankworth, Maynard Ferguson and Benny Goodman.

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Bernstein mixes well-known pop songs with a lost style of jazz that predates the big band era.

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Mingus Big Band : The party continued from the Jazz Standard, named Best Jazz Club by New York magazine in 2008.

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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.

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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.

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