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Pages in category "American jazz bandleaders" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 426 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Tom Smith (born 1957) (Unifour Jazz Ensemble) John Philip Sousa (1858-1932) Charlie Spivak (1905/07- 1982) Sun Ra (1914–1993) T ... List of American big band ...
Paul Samuel Whiteman [1] (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) [2] was an American Jazz bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist. [3]As the leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and early 1930s, Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz".
Miller "was a stickler for details and accuracy and always the truth. How delighted he would have been with Ed Polic's superbly documented report" wrote George Simon as he recommended, The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band: Sustineo Alas / I Sustain the Wings to readers of the American Reference Books Annual. In 1314 pages, Polic covers a "small ...
Swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "big" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw.
Dan Kuramoto, leader of the iconic Asian American jazz band Hiroshima. As part of its "Domo," or "Thank You," tour — which he called a "wind down," not a final farewell — Hiroshima is playing ...
James Francis Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader. He recorded and composed the jazz and pop standards "I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)" and "It's The Dreamer In Me".
The Count Basie Orchestra was founded in 1934 in Kansas City by the legendary jazz band leader William “Count” Basie. The band, with 15 to 18 members, continued after his death in 1984 and ...