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Carla Bley Big Band
Appearing Nightly [ ECM / CD - released 25/Aug/2008 ] |
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RODRIGO / GADE / PIAZZOLLA / WEILL / SEREBRIER / GOULD / SATIE / STRAVINSKY
Tango in Blue Carole Farley (Sop) Molly Judson (cor anglais) Damian Martinez (cello) Daniel Espasa (piano) Enrique Tellera band / Barcelona Symphony / Serebrie [ BIS / CD - released 20/May/2006 ] José Serebrier and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra return with another disc on Latin themes. This time it is South America. |
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JOPLIN / GLADD / CAROSIO
Spaghetti Rag - Rag Music With Mandolins Center Boy's Rag Band / Raffaele Calace Plectrum Quintet / Italian Mando-Rag Club Citta di Brescia [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] This unique recording sets out to give a flavour of American ragtime through the medium of the mandolin. It is now believed that many of the original early twentieth-century rags were regularly performed by American-Italian mandolin orchestras whose... |
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NIGEL HESS
New London Pictures: Works for Symphonic Wind Orchestra by Nigel Hess The Central Band of the RAF, Nigel Hess [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Nigel Hess is a British composer, best known for his television, theatre, and film soundtracks, which include the theme tunes to Wycliffe, Dangerfield, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, and Ladies in Lavender starring Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. |
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JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 14 Central Band of the Royal Air Force / Keith Brion [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] The unprecedented popularity enjoyed by John Philip Sousa was garnered through constant national and international touring with a band that included some of the very best American instrumentalists. Volume 14 of this series includes brilliant show... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
British Classics The Central Band of the Royal Air Force, Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Mar/2015 ] This new recording with The Central Band of the Royal Air Force, conducted by Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs, features some of the greatest British pieces in the repertoire. |
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The Chick Corea Elektric Band
To the Stars [ Concord Records / CD - released 17/May/2010 ] Corea returns with his genre-bending, all-star Elektric Band, featuring Frank Gambale, Eric Marienthal, John Patitucci, Dave Weckl and guest appearances by Steve Wilson, Pernell Saturnino and Gayle Moran Corea. |
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Christian McBride Big Band
The Good Feeling (180g Double LP) [ Mack Avenue / 2 LP - released 15/Oct/2012 ] 180g vinyl, double LP. Although he has done plenty of big band playing and arranging in his career, The Good Feeling is Christian McBride's first foray as a big band leader. The Grammy-winning title, described by All About Jazz as "superb," features... |
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Danish Radio Big Band
Lamb: The Nightingale & The Ro [ Proprius / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] |
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Darcy Perry Band
Phoenix [ CD - released 22/Nov/2008 ] Darcy Perry performs with passion, intensity and a ferocious band; Norway's finest blues piano player Simen Taylor and New Zealand harmonica master Craig Bracken stamp an authentic New Orleans meets Chicago feel. |
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Darcy Perry Blues Band
Heavy Rain [ Darcy Perry Blues Band / CD - released 5/Aug/2006 ] |
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The David Bromberg Band
Only Slightly Mad [ Appleseed / CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] For the follow-up to his previous star-studded album, Use Me (2011), which featured Levon Helm, John Hiatt, Dr. John, Los Lobos, and many others, David Bromberg decided to use his own road band augmented by members of the late Levon Helm's recording... |
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TRADITIONAL
Nigel Kennedy - East Meets East Nigel Kennedy (violin) and The Kroke Band [ EMI Music / Warner / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Brimming with beautiful haunting melodies, lush harmonies and pulsating dance rhythms! Recorded in Krakow with Polish folk trio Kroke |
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REVUELTAS
Homenaje a Revueltas: Chamber Music Ebony Band Amsterdam [ Channel Classics SACD / SACD - released 16/Nov/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in multi-channel 5.0 surround / stereo sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. "Spectacularly recorded chamber works by Mexico's master of the grotesque." Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2004 |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (arr. for brass band) Eikanger-Bjorsvik Band / Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] The idea of arranging movements from Prokofiev's popular ballet Romeo and Juliet for brass band and percussion is not as strange as it may first seem, since Russia boasts a great brass band tradition. The three arrangers who participated in this... |
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RALF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony & other works Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo) / Royal College of Music Brass Band / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] "This splendid performance is now the best way to hear the 1920 version of A London Symphony." MuscWeb Nov 2017 |
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CLEMENT JANEQUIN / THOINOT ARBEAU / PIERRE de la RUE / JOSQUIN DESPREZ / etc
Music in the Châteaux de la Loire Ensemble Clement Janequin, Dominique Visse / The Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow [ Harmonia Mundi Resonances / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] Famous places and monuments all have a musical history whose richness and variety we do not always realise. For centuries their beauties have nourished the imagination of composers and performers who, in return, have often dedicated to them some of... |
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Eric Winstone Big Band
Eric Winstone Plays 007 & Supe [ Vocalion / CD - released 21/Nov/2011 ] |
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SVENDSEN / GROSSMAN / MANDEL / LANGFORD / etc
The Concert Sound of the John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band. John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band [ Chandos Brass / CD ] Black Dyke Band, formerly John Foster & Son Black Dyke Mills Band, is one of the oldest and best-known brass bands in the world. |