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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 ...
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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.
He joined an all-blind band, Claude Bampton's Blind Orchestra, during that time, and was influenced by the records of Teddy Wilson and Fats Waller. [2] Shearing made his first BBC radio broadcast during this time, after being befriended by Leonard Feather, with whom he started recording in 1937. [3] In 1940, Shearing joined Harry Parry's
He led the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra and the BBC Big Band briefly in the early 1960s, but squabbles with management quickly ended this contract. In 1964 he assembled the Centre 42 Big Band, and through the end of the decade wrote for television and directed singers Tommy Cooper and Freddie Starr.
The musicians were from Carter's band and included Red Allen, Dicky Wells, Wayman Carver, Coleman Hawkins, J. C. Higginbotham, and Chu Berry. [5] Carter moved to London and spent two years as arranger for the BBC Big Band. [2] In England, France, and Scandinavia he recorded with local musicians, and he took his band to the Netherlands.
In 1974, Holder was invited to sing with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra at a Royal Albert Hall Promenade Concert with soprano Margaret Gale and the BBC Chorus. In 1990 he appeared with the BBC Big Band at Fairfield Halls, Croydon. The following year, he played congas and bongos on an album by Barbara Thompson's band Paraphernalia entitled ...
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.