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An extravagantly gifted composer, arranger, and pianist — some considered him a genius — Billy Strayhorn toiled throughout the majority of his maturity within the gaudy darkness of his company, collaborator, and friend, Duke Ellington. Just within the last 10 years offers Strayhorn’s profile been raised to an even nearing …

Though it was usually a part-time venture (functioning maybe thirty days per year, counting an annual recording), Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass was among the finest big bands from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. A fantastic soloist, McConnell performed valve trombone in Toronto (both in the studios and in jazz configurations) …

Keyboardist David Matthews continues to be, among other activities, a steady way to obtain funk, whether taking in it all in through the sweat from the rhythmically innovative spirit godfather James Dark brown or wanting to pour it all over the mind from the somewhat wimpier Paul Simon. Developments for …

Though he was renowned like a groundbreaking British comedian and achieved Hollywood stardom because of his functions in 10 and Arthur, Dudley Moore took probably the most satisfaction in his accomplishments like a musician and composer. A choirboy at age group six as well as the organist at chapel wedding …

Russ Morgan was a significant arranger and composer within the pre-rock period. He performed in NY groups through the early ’20s and do agreements for Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa. He was a music movie director on radio in Detroit in 1926, carrying out agreements for Fletcher Henderson, Chick …

A few of the most relaxed, lyrically swinging and downright charismatic plans from the Jimmie Lunceford music group originated from this talented performer, best summed up by one Edwin Wilcox’s own track game titles: “Nice Tempo”. His composing technique appears to have assimilated something of his little hometown of Method’s …

Even though some of his recordings were in the periphery of jazz and his orchestra was at its most widely used in the first ’40s, Claude Thornhill’s main importance to jazz was the influence that his arrangements and orchestra’s sound had on cool jazz from the past due ’40s. After …

Co-chaired by famous bop drummer Kenny Clarke and Belgian-born pianist/composer Francy Boland, the Clarke-Boland Big Band placed among the very best European orchestras from the ’60s and early ’70s. The group produced in 1960 pursuing Clarke’s relocation to Paris; originally, he and Boland — clean away a stint simply because …