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Rubin was a member of the Saturday Night Live Band, with whom he played at the Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games.As a member of The Blues Brothers, he portrayed Mr. Fabulous in the 1980 film, the 1998 sequel and was a member of the touring band.
Many other jazz artists also borrowed from black gospel music. Before World War II, American churches, black and white, regarded jazz and blues with suspicion or outright hostility as "the devil's music". It was only after World War II that a few jazz musicians began to compose and perform extended works intended for religious settings or ...
Gary and the Hornets, was a Franklin, Ohio–based garage rock band that consisted of three brothers: Gary, Greg, and Steve Calvert; The G-Clefs, an American R&B vocal group, brothers Teddy, Chris, Tim and Arnold Scott; Gene Loves Jezebel, British alternative rock band with identical twin brothers, Jay and Michael Aston
Ten songs made famous by The Allman Brothers Band receive big band arrangements. [1] The album was inspired by Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band 1994 tribute album The Music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays. [2] Like the Allman Brothers, Big Band of Brothers is composed of musicians from the southeastern U.S.
Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 – August 20, 1986) [1] was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists". [ 2 ] Biography
Later, due to the increasing responsibilities being placed on the trumpet players, the baritone sax position was replaced by a third trumpet player. The band's repertoire included original jazz compositions and modern arrangements of jazz standards, with occasional pieces from his 1970s book and even modified charts from the Birdland Dream Band ...
In 1983 James and John Morrison formed the Morrison Brothers Big Bad Band, a 13-piece group. In 1984 the band included James Morrison on trumpet, trombone, and piano, Warwick Alder on trumpet, Peter Cross on trumpet, Paul Andrews on alto saxophone, Tom Baker on alto and baritone saxophones, Jason Morphett on tenor saxophone, Glenn Henrich on vibraphone, Craig Scott on bass, and John Morrison ...
He was a trumpeter in Tom Jones's band while in Las Vegas, and is featured on his 1971 live album Live at Caesar's Palace. [3] In 1972, Shew moved from Las Vegas to Los Angeles , where he did much studio work as well as play with some of the top big bands of the era through the end of the 1970s: Akiyoshi/Tabackin , Louis Bellson , Maynard ...