Jazz Ensemble [sound recording]. 2000.

William "Billy" Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio on November 29, 1915. He spent part of his childhood in Hillsborough, North Carolina. His family eventually moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied classical music at the Pittsburgh Musical Institution. At the age of 23, he submitted a musical composition titled "Something to Live For" to Duke Ellington, who subsequently recorded it with Strayhorn as the pianist. Strayhorn worked as the pianist in Mercer Ellington's orchestra for ...

Mandel, Johnny

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Mancini, Henry

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Mancini was born on Apr. 16, 1924, in Cleveland, OH; attended Carnegie Tech Music School and Juillard Graduate School; began career after military service in WWII as a pianist with dance bands; studied privately in Los Angeles with Krenek, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Sendrey; staff composer for Universal Pictures, 1952-58; demonstrated his skills as a music arranger and songwriter with The Glenn Miller story (1954), which earned him the first of many Academy Award nominations; subsequently composed...

NCSA Jazz Ensemble.

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Worsham, Luke.

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McConnell, Robert L., 1939-

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Rob McConnell was born in London ON, 14 Feb. 1935. The collection is the work of a preeminent Canadian jazz composer and arranger. It represents the original score materials on which his big band performances, recorded on 17 CD albums, were based. From the description of Rob McConnell papers 1967-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225154303 ...

Yenon, Yoav.

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Nestico, Sammy

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Rudkin, Ron

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Sam M. Lewis

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Frack, Seth.

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Osterer, Marc.

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Dale, Jon-Marc.

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Friedman, Bennett.

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Klenner, John, 1899-1955

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Harris, Matt.

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Walter, Doug

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Snyder, J. Maxwell, 1976-

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Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969

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< Born Vladimir Alexandrovitch Dukelsky, Parafianove, Minsk 1916 1919 Studied composition with Reinhold Glière and Marian Dombrovsky at the Kiev Conservatory 1920 Fled the Revolution with his family, settling first in Constantinople ...

Woods, Sahara.

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Elllington, Duke, 1899-1974.

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Wright, Rayburn

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Morimoto, Tommy.

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