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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 ...
This article is a list of people who led their own British dance band (distinct from British big band leaders, who played big band music). It includes those performers who were not British, but led a band based in Britain. [1
Don Lusher (The Don Lusher Big Band) M. Ken Mackintosh; N. Kris Nock (The Kris Nock Big Band) P ... (BBC Show Band) T. Billy Ternent; Stan Tracey; W.
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The BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award is an annual competition for young folk musicians in the United Kingdom. It was first awarded in 1988 as the Young Tradition Award , taking its present name in 1998. Recent winners of the award include Brighde Chaimbeul , Talisk and Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar .
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]
BBC Dance Orchestra (1928–1952, formed as the London Radio Dance Band in 1926, became the BBC Showband in 1952 and the BBC Big Band in 1964) [10] BBC Empire Orchestra (1934–1939, part of BBC Empire Service, now the BBC World Service; orchestra conducted by Eric Fogg) [11] BBC Midland Orchestra (1934–1941, became the BBC Midland Light ...
Thomas Mitchell Watt [1] (31 October 1925, Glasgow – 20 May 2006, Bristol, England) was a Scottish jazz bandleader.. Born to a working-class family, his father a machinist toolmaker, [2] [3] Watt was hired as a pianist by Carl Barriteau at age 17, and served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.