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Article: Big Band Report

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

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The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...

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"A Swingin' Affair" Outshines Its Name

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With an appreciative bow and genial tip of the hat to the late Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute named its semi-annual big-band soiree May 21-24 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel “A Swingin' Affair." Was the event able to live up to its name? In the immortal words of ...

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Like Basie

Label: Mighty Quinn Productions
Released: 2006
Track listing: Jump The Blues Away; Jump For Me; Like Basie; The Holy Main; Big D; P.Q.

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Play Paris

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Gypsy; Wet Back on the Left Bank; Embarkation; Thanks for You; So What Could Be New?; Just 40 Bars; Palm Caf

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Nat Pierce, Dick Collins, Ralph Burns and the Herdsmen: Play Paris

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In early 1954, while Woody Herman’s Third Herd was touring Europe, a number of Woody’s sidemen took the opportunity to pick up some spare change by collaborating on a couple of sessions in Paris for French record executive Charles Delaunay. The results of the Paris dates are documented on tracks 1–8 of this reissue on Fantasy; ...

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The Persuasive Trombone Of Urbie Green

Label: Command
Released: 1972
Track listing: At Last; Prisoner Of Love; Dream; I've Heard That Song Before; Moonlight Serenade; Stairway To The Stars; Let's Fall In Love; My Silent Love; My Melancholy Baby; I Had The Craziest Dream; I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; I Can't Get Started.

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Clarinet And Co.

Label: Faithful Productions
Released: 1957
Track listing: Blue Sophisticate; Conversation; Countryfield; Just Sick Blues; Mona's Kimona; Rondo Blues; Wiggins.

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The Nat Pierce-Dick Collins Nonet / The Charlie Mariano Sextet

Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 1956
Track listing: Drop The Other Shoe; I'll Never Be The Same; Honey Baby; Easy Living; Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now; Some Of These Days; Blue Lester; The King; Come Rain Or Come Shine; My Friend Ethel; After Coffee; Trouble Is A Man; Let's Get Away From It All; The Thrill Is Gone; The Nymph;


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