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McConnell is best known for establishing and leading the big band The Boss Brass, which he directed from 1967 to 1999. McConnell was born in London, Ontario...

jazz musicians who later became the core of McConnell's Boss Brass big band. The Boss Brass was a part-time band led by McConnell for more than thirty...

George Shearing) 1986 Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass (with Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass) 1988 Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – Reunion...

Canadian jazz musician who played lead trombone for Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass. McDougall was born in Calgary, and grew up in Victoria. At the age of...

Gillespie Live at the Royal Festival Hall Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass – The Brass is Back Jay McShann – Paris All-Star Blues (A Tribute to Charlie...

trumpeter Blue Mitchell on his Bring It Home to Me. Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass recorded a version featuring Guido Basso for their 1976 LP The Jazz Album...

Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass is a 1986 studio album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by Rob McConnell's Boss Brass Big band. Tormé and McConnell's...

the Boss Brass, Sherry Kean, Diane Tell, Véronique Béliveau 1985 4 November David Foster, Bryan Adams, Tina Turner, k.d. lang, Lube, Canadian Brass, Kim...

full-length album. Koffman was also a long-time member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass. Koffman was born in Toronto to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents...

2023) was a Canadian jazz musician who was a member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass big band. He was a trumpeter, flugelhornist, arranger, composer, and conductor...

Claus Ogerman. From 1968 to 1971, he was a member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass. He has taught drums and percussion at the University of Central Florida...

Rob McConnell's big band and recorded Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass. In 1995 he toured with Ken Peplowski. For much of the later period of...

Tabackin Big Band) Rob McConnell – "I Got Rhythm" (Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass) Bob Florence – "Afternoon of a Prawn" 1985 Jeremy Lubbock & Quincy Jones...

to rotate through one plane, but held firm in another plane. A boss can also be a brass eyelet on a sail. It is a generic term to describe an item designed...

All in Good Time is an album by Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1984. Rob McConnell –...

Carla Bley Band – jazz, post bop Bohuslän Big Band - jazz Rob McConnell's Boss Brass - jazz Anthony Braxton's Creative Music Orchestra Les Brown and His Band...

Velvet & Brass is a 1995 album by Mel Tormé, with Rob McConnell's Boss Brass big band. This was Tormé's second recording with the band; his first was...

(1896–1975) Jimmie Lunceford (1902–1947) Rob McConnell (1935-2010) (the Boss Brass) Ray McKinley (1910-1995) Hal McIntyre (1914-1959) Richard Maltby (1914-1991)...

with guitarist Jim Hall. Thompson was also a member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass for more than two decades starting in the late 1960s. From 2005 to the...

Brass Eye (stylised as brassEYE) is a British satirical television series parodying current affairs news programming. A series of six episodes aired on...