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Equally skilled both in big-band and combo settings, Don Lamond is best-known for his association with Woody Herman’s Orchestra. He was raised in Washington, examined on the Peabody Conservatory in Philadelphia, and found early experience dealing with the big rings of Sonny Dunham (1943) and Boyd Raeburn. Lamond changed Dave …

An excellent bop participant who finally emerged in records being a leader within the 1990s, Greg Abate had found experience using the Ray Charles Orchestra (beginning in 1973 when he succeeded David “Fathead” Newman) as well as the Artie Shaw music group when it had been headed by clarinetist Dick …

Vocalist Frances Wayne recorded using the rings of Charlie Barnet and Woody Herman before signing up for a music group formed by her hubby, Neal Hefti (another Herman alum), from the mid-’40s. Delivered in 1924, Wayne shifted to NY as an adolescent and sang with an organization led by her …

A talented bop-based trombonist, John Fedchock can be quite notable being a big music group arranger. Fedchock graduated from Ohio Condition University as well as the Eastman College Of Music. Within the 1980’s he spent seven years playing and touring with Woody Herman’s Orchestra and, although he previously chances to …

A big music group and instrumental pop aggregation who slice several albums for the Palo Alto/TBA label within the ’80s.

“The Poet from the Piano,” Carmen Cavallaro was created Might 6, 1913 in NEW YORK; though a classically-trained performer, with time he extended into pop preparations in the setting of his key motivation, Eddy Duchin. Following a four-year stint because the highlighted soloist with bandleader Al Kavelin, in 1937 Cavallaro …

b. 22 Apr 1936, Buffalo, NY, USA. From age 12 Menza took a significant fascination with music, learning clarinet, although he was to instruct himself composing and organizing. Within the 50s, and right now playing tenor saxophone, he inserted military program and was stationed for a while in Germany where …

Freddie Slack was an integral part of two strike records through the golf swing era, building his tag on jazz background. Originally a drummer, he turned to piano immediately after shifting to Chicago in 1927. Slack proved helpful in early stages with Johnny Tobin. After shifting to LA in 1931, …

Bandleader Edmundo Ros was the living embodiment of Latin music in Globe Battle II-era Britain. The toast of London’s high culture, he effectively launched the rhumba and samba towards the U.K. shores. Given birth to Dec 7, 1910, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, to some Scottish dad and an African-Venezuelan mom, Ros …

Dominic Frontiere offers led a profession that has trim across a minimum of four music genres more than a fifty percent century. Born right into a musical family members in New Haven, CT, in 1931, Frontiere used several instruments being a guy before buying the accordion, of which he created …