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2. BBC Big Band - Wikipedia

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   The BBC Big Band, originally known as the BBC Radio Big Band is a British big band, previously run under the auspices of the British Broadcasting Corporation . The band broadcasts exclusively on BBC Radio, particularly on BBC Radio 2's long-running series Big Band Special. It consists of professional musicians and is directed by a number of ...

3. Ted Heath (bandleader) - Wikipedia

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   Heath led what is widely considered Britain's greatest post-war big band, [2] recording more than 100 albums, [3] which sold over 20 million copies. [4] The most successful band in Britain during the 1950s, [ 5 ] it remained in existence as a ghost band long after Heath died, surviving in such a form until 2000.

4. Alan Barnes (musician) - Wikipedia

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   In that year he left to join the hard-bop band of Tommy Chase, where he attracted attention on the UK jazz scene for the first time. [2] He left Chase in 1986 to co-lead The Jazz Renegades, [ 2 ] with rock drummer Steve White , with whom he recorded four albums.

5. Duncan Campbell (trumpeter) - Wikipedia

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   Duncan Campbell (31 May 1926 – 12 December 2013) was a British trumpet player who played with Ted Heath and his Orchestra, Ronnie Scott, Syd Lawrence and the BBC Big Band. He was married to June Pressley, Elvis Presley's cousin and regular of the Ivy Benson Band.

6. BBC Radio Orchestra - Wikipedia

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   The BBC Radio Orchestra was a broadcasting orchestra based in London, maintained by the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1964 until 1991.. The BBC Radio Orchestra was formed in 1964 as a large, flexible studio orchestra on the Nelson Riddle/Henry Mancini model, featuring a full jazz Big Band combined with symphonic strings. [1]

7. Big Band Special - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Malcolm Lockyer - Wikipedia

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   Among the many orchestras he led were those for: the BBC Radio Home Service's radio musical version of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1962). 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.

9. Category:BBC Big Band members - Wikipedia

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   Members of the British big band the BBC Big Band, formerly known as the BBC Dance Orchestra and the BBC Showband See also: Category:BBC Orchestras people Pages in category "BBC Big Band members"