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Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉敏子 or 穐吉敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko, born 12 December 1929) [1] is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. [2]Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's annual Readers' Poll.
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The Ada Leonard Orchestra was the first all-female band officially signed by the USO, and it performed at army camps throughout the United States during World War II. [4] From 1952 to 1954, Leonard hosted a variety show on television; Search for Girls , starring Leonard and her orchestra, ran on KTTV in Los Angeles for 30 minutes on Friday nights.
Orchestral jazz or symphonic jazz is a form of jazz that developed in New York City in the 1920s. Early innovators of the genre, such as Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington , include some of the most highly regarded musicians, composers, and arrangers in all of jazz history. [ 1 ]
The Metropole Orkest (transl. Metropole Orchestra) is a jazz and pop orchestra based in the Netherlands, and is the largest full-time ensemble of its kind in the world. A hybrid orchestra, it combines jazz, big band and classical symphony orchestra styles. Comprising between 52 and 97 musicians, it is versatile across many musical forms, and is ...
The DIVA Jazz Orchestra Diva + The Boys: MCG Jazz Alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet [18] 2018 Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Fandango at the Wall: A Soundtrack for the United States, Mexico, and Beyond: Resilience Music Alliance Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute 2018 Lauren Sevian Bliss: Posi-Tone: Alto ...
Sound Pieces is an album by American jazz composer, ... "Sound Piece for Jazz Orchestra" - 9:44 "Flute Salad" - 2:49 "The Lady From Girl Talk" - 4:59 "The Shadow of ...
Fuller was born in Aurora, Colorado to jazz musicians Fred and Elthopia Fuller. [3] Her father, Fred, plays bass and her mother, Ethiopia, sings. She grew up playing classical piano at the age of three and listening to her parents rehearse in the basement of their home, as well as to the music of John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker.