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Year Film/Title Director(s) Cast/Leads Notes 1954 The Glenn Miller Story: Anthony Mann: James Stewart June Allyson: The film tells the story of the Glenn Miller Orchestra and big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) (James Stewart) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying on was lost over the English Channel during World War II.
He was conductor of the BBC Revue Orchestra and subsequently the principal conductor of the new BBC Radio Orchestra [1] and the BBC Big Band [2] when both ensembles were formed in 1967. Lockyer was the musical director for the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest staged at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh .
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; Rob McConnell's Boss Brass - jazz; Anthony Braxton's Creative Music Orchestra; Les Brown and His Band of Renown - swing; Ray Brown's Great Big Band - jazz; Brussels Jazz Orchestra - jazz
The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying in was lost over the English Channel during World War II. Prominent placement in the film is given to Miller's courtship and marriage to Helen Burger, and various cameos by ...
GRP All-Star Big Band (album) H. Harry James and His Orchestra 1948–49; Harry's Choice! I. ... The Tommy Vig Orchestra 2012 Featuring David Murray; Wild About Harry!
The Melody Masters were a series of first-rate big band musical film shorts produced by Warner Brothers, under the supervision of Samuel Sax at their Vitaphone studio in New York between 1931 and 1939, and in Burbank, California with producer Gordon Hollingshead in charge between 1940 and 1946.
A television mockumentary featuring the Rutles, a parody of the Beatles. Yesterday: 1985 Radosław Piwowarski: A band of four teenagers play a concert full of Beatles hits for their high school graduation. Secrets: 1992 Michael Pattinson A drama film about five Australian teenagers who get locked in the basement of a hotel where the Beatles are ...
Originally planned as a short run of 12 programmes, Big Band Special was the first jazz showcase on BBC Radio for the BBC Big Band. For most of its first decade, Big Band Special was made up of studio sessions featuring the BBC Big Band with guest vocalists and jazz soloists. From the 1990s onwards, concerts from all parts of the UK and beyond ...