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British composer Graham Collier was the initial British isles student to graduate from the Berklee University of Music. Collier gained a scholarship or grant in 1961, after playing a lot more than seven years within an military music group. He toured briefly in 1963 using the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra playing …

As an arranger, Toshiko Akiyoshi (influenced originally by Gil Evans and Thad Jones) continues to be particularly notable for incorporating components of traditional Japan music into her otherwise bop-ish graphs. A solid (and underrated) pianist in the Bud Powell custom, Akiyoshi was created in China but transferred to Japan in …

Ed Palermo continues to be leading his personal big music group for a lot more than 25 years, an achievement simply by itself. Ahead of that he previously performed or documented with Aretha Franklin, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, Lou Rawls, Melba Moore, …

There were few jazz musicians simply because consistently controversial simply because Stan Kenton. Dismissed by purists of varied genres while treasured by numerous others, Kenton rates up there with Chet Baker and Sunlight Ra as jazz’s best cult body. He led a succession of extremely original rings that frequently emphasized …

Palle Mikkelborg is definitely an excellent trumpeter who’s best-known stateside for his Aura collection, which Kilometers Davis recorded in 1984. Self-taught on trumpet, Mikkelborg began working expertly in 1960. He became a member of the Danish Radio Jazz Group in 1963 and led it during 1967-1972. Mikkelborg performed in the …

The Indigo Invention Group, led by composer/storyteller/saxophonist Hans Spencer Indigo, incorporates improvisation and spoken word right into a big-band jazz orchestra. The Boston-based group shaped in 1999 for Indigo’s master’s recital at the brand new Britain Conservatory and attracts upon such affects as Laurie Anderson, Green Floyd, Maria Schneider, and …

Intensifying big band leader from your U.K. who loves Ellington, Weill, and Blake. Multi-faceted music and overall performance art. Politically billed.

This German-American bandleader, arranger, composer, and producer is noted for his involvement within the international avant-garde jazz movement. Having relocated from Germany to NEW YORK in the middle-’60s, Stadler led organizations that shown the affects of Ornette Coleman, the Artwork Outfit of Chicago, and late-period John Coltrane. Frequently respectable by …

Largely forgotten right now, Gary McFarland was one of the most significant contributors to orchestral jazz through the early ’60s. An “adult prodigy,” as Gene Lees accurately mentioned, McFarland was a nifty little composer whose music could reveal tones of complex psychological subtlety and smart childlike simplicity. Within the Military, …

Gerald Wiggins was an extremely flexible pianist quite comfortable in golf swing or bop configurations, but he was in his best when executing along with his longtime trio, an organization that also included bassist Andy Simpkins and drummer Paul Humphrey. Wiggins’ swinging and regularly witty design, typically filled up with …