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Mike's Peak

By Les Brown

Label: Group 7 Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Mike

214

Article: Album Review

The Les Brown All-Stars: Mike's Peak

Read "Mike's Peak" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 20, 2006

The Les Brown All-Stars are actually three groups--the Dave Pell Octet, Ronny Lang Saxtet and Don Fagerquist Nonet--comprised for the most part of members or alumni of Brown's popular and long-lived Band of Renown and encircling on this anthology from the mid-'50s three numbers by Zoot Sims' older brother, trombonist Ray, with string section. Pell's group, ...

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Session #55

By Les Brown

Label: Jake Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Floatin

134

Article: Album Review

Les Brown and His Band of Renown: Session #55

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2001

Few bandleaders enjoyed longer or more successful careers than Les Brown. After coming out of Duke University in 1936, where he led his first dance band, the Blue Devils, Brown formed what would later become the Band of Renown in 1938. Les got a big break in 1947 when comedian Bob Hope hired the band to ...

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The Jazz Masters - 100 Anos De Swing

By Les Brown

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 1996

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Giants of the Big Band Era

By Les Brown

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 1993

Album

The Les Brown Story

By Les Brown

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 1989

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Swing Back With Les Brown

By Les Brown

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 1988

Album

Les Brown

By Les Brown

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 1984

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Big Bands: Les Brown

By Les Brown

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 1984

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