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Unpredictable Amsterdam-based innovative jazz ensemble Spinifex (named following a genus of Australian seaside grass) began like a feisty small big band in the mold of such Dutch outfits as We Compani, Willem Breuker Kollektief, and ICP Orchestra — specially the multifaceted contemporary composition side of these groups — having a …

A 16-piece big music group led by pianist/arranger Orrin Evans, the Captain Dark Big Music group makes swinging, forward-thinking jazz. Located in NEW YORK and formed this year 2010, the music group features a spinning lineup of best names for the N.Con.C. and Philadelphia jazz moments, including such performers as …

The Rhythmagic Orchestra was founded by Nostalgia 77’s Benedic Lamdin and Sofrito’s Hugo Mendez like a collaborative project that involved the latest young players within the U.K.’s jazz picture and Cuban percussionists. It pulls its members through the Nostalgia 77 Octet, the Plumstead Radical Golf club, the Heliocentrics, the Alex …

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 …

The first international jazz soloist to emerge from Turkey, trumpeter Maffy Falay was created in 1930 and studied in Ankara. In 1956, the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra was greeted with a jazz music group in the Turkish capital and Gillespie was therefore impressed that he suggested Falay to go to america. …

Orchestra. Huge group made up of mainly German free of charge musicians. They produced two albums for FMP label.