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    codes. In marketing, "progressive" is used to distinguish a product from "commercial" pop music. Progressive jazz is a form of big band that is more complex...
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    A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones...
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  • a progressive rock band at any point. Contents:  0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also 21st Century Schizoid Band: Band of...
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    Big Big Train are an English progressive rock band formed in Bournemouth in 1990. The current line-up includes band founder Gregory Spawton (bass, guitars...
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  • Swing music (redirect from Swing band)
    first big band to showcase bebop. As the swing era went into decline, it secured legacies in vocalist-centered popular music, "progressive" big band jazz...
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  • This is the discography of the English progressive rock band, Big Big Train. Remasted/Reissued with expanded track list/new artwork: 2011 Partially...
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    Frank Foster (jazz musician) (category Progressive big band bandleaders)
    1953 he joined Count Basie's big band. Foster contributed both arrangements and original compositions to Count Basie's band including the standard "Shiny...
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    Stan Kenton (category Progressive big band bandleaders)
    few compositions to the new band, including Somnambulism. Kenton contributed no new scores to the Progressive Jazz band, although several of his older...
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    Toshiko Akiyoshi (category Progressive big band musicians)
    Akiyoshi toured with smaller bands to raise money for her big band. Years later, BMG continued to release her big band's recordings in Japan but remained...
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    Don Ellis (category Progressive big band musicians)
    attended West High School in Minneapolis, MN. After attending a Tommy Dorsey Big Band concert, he first became interested in jazz. Other early inspirations were...
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  • peaking in the early 1970s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an emergence of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour...
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    Charles Mingus (category Progressive big band bandleaders)
    like Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) and Mingus Ah Um (1959) and progressive big band experiments such as The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963). Mingus's...
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    Gil Evans (category Progressive big band musicians)
    others, collaborated on a band book for a nonet. These ensembles, larger than the trio-to-quintet combos, but smaller than big bands which were on the brink...
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    Bill Holman (musician) (category Progressive big band bandleaders)
    the WDR Big Band in Cologne, the BBC Big Band in London, SWR Big Band in Stuttgart, Germany, the hr-Bigband in Frankfurt, Germany, RIAS Big Band Berlin...
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    Big Sugar is a band formed in Toronto in 1988 by Gordie Johnson, the band's lead singer, lead guitarist and main songwriter. Between 1996 and 2016, Big...
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    David Amram (category Progressive big band musicians)
    David Werner Amram III (born November 17, 1930) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz...
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  • Contraband is a progressive big band that formed in the 1980s led by trombonist Willem van Manen, recording exclusively for the BVHaast record label. The...
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    Carla Bley (redirect from Carla Bley Band)
    convention and false pathos". Bley continued to record frequently with her own big band, which included Lew Soloff from Blood, Sweat & Tears, and with a number...
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    Nat Pierce (category Progressive big band musicians)
    arranger for the Woody Herman band from 1951 to 1955. Pieces by Pierce were predominantly created for use in big bands. Pierce was born in Somerville...
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  • One critic called it "the sound of the modern, progressive big band at its pinnacle." Jones's band was an outgrowth of the orchestra used in the Broadway...
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