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The Bama State Collegians is a student jazz orchestra made up of students at Alabama State University. This group was organized in the late 1920s by Len Bowden, Fess Whatley, and Paul Bascomb. [1] Bowden went on to direct the Navy's music program at Camp Robert Smalls during World War II.
The Honda Battle of the Bands Celebration Tour takes place between the months of September and November at regular season football games, although Honda Battle of the Bands (and its abbreviations) is often intended to refer only to the invitational showcase, which first took place in 2003. Seemingly contradictory to the name, Honda's "battle ...
Oregon State: Oregon State University Marching Band: Corvallis OR 1891 show band Pac-12: Washington State: Cougar Marching Band: Pullman WA 1923 show band Pac-12: Alabama: Million Dollar Band: Tuscaloosa AL 1912 show band SEC: Arkansas: Razorback Marching Band: Fayetteville AR 1874 show band SEC: Auburn: Auburn University Marching Band (AUMB ...
That’ll be Alabama A&M’s Marching Maroon and White band. Officials selected Alabama A&M to lead the 11 marching bands in the parade, making it the historically Black university’s first band ...
Alabama State University (ASU, Bama State, or Alabama State) is a public historically black university in Montgomery, Alabama.Founded in 1867, during the Reconstruction era, it was one of about 180 "normal schools" established by state governments in the 19th century to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools.
The band performing its pregame show prior to a football game in 2010. The Million Dollar Band, which was first known simply as the "Alabama Band", was formed as a military band in 1912. [2] In its first year, the band consisted of just 14 members under director Dr. Gustav Wittig, who was also an engineering and physics professor at the university.
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Bascomb was born the youngest of a family of ten children, another of whom was future tenor saxophonist Paul Bascomb.He played piano as a child but settled on trumpet, and first played with Hawkins at the Alabama State Teachers' School (now Alabama State University) in 1932, where Hawkins led the Bama State Collegians band.