Instrumentalists
This is the stage name for Arthur Jacob Arshawsky.
Who is "Artie Shaw"?
J. Robert Oppenheimer would love this classic from the Count Basie Orchestra.
This Duke Ellington Orchestra saxophonist was featured on Billy Strayhorn compositions Isfahan and Blood Count.
Who is Johnny Hodges?
"Palt Seanuts" is a contract inspired by this iconic bebop trumpeter's composition Salt Peanuts.
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
This 1950s Count Basie drummer shares a name with the term for a dark image created by a blocked light source.
Who is Shadow Wilson?
This is the name of Maria Schneider's first album.
What is "Evanescence"?
Black, Brown and Beige is a three movement piece broken into smaller part. The movement "Black" is divided into three parts - "Work Song", "Light", and _______.
What is "Come Sunday"?
The ensemble Super Sax makes arrangements that harmonize this famous saxophonists solos.
Who is Charlie Parker?
I played saxophone, flute, and later in life led the Count Basie Orchestra. You might best know me for writing “Shiny Stockings”.
Who is Frank Foster?
This is the name of Darcy James Argue's first big band album.
What is "Infernal Machines"?
This Ellington saxophonist famously took 27 choruses on the Live at Newport recoding of "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue".
Who is Paul Gonslaves?
"Sing Sing Sing" borrows heavily from this Fletcher Henderson composition.
What is Christopher Columbus?
I made a career almost exclusively playing Baritone Saxophone in big bands. You might have heard me playing with Duke Ellington or with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
Who is Joe Temperley?
This lesser known album by Ben Patterson is treacherous.
This New York based club hosted the Duke Ellington Orchestra for several years.
What is the Cotton Club?
What is "Walking & Swinging"?
I played piano in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra AND was knighted in Liberia.
Who is Sir Roland Hanna?
This saxophonist only recorded one big band album which featured a song about distinct nuclear species of the same chemical element.
Elmer Snowden formed this group in the mid-1920s featuring Ellington and named after the area in which they grew up.
What is "The Washingtonians"?
Stan Kenton's "Intermission Riff" borrows heavily from this Gerald Wilson composition.
What is "Yard Dog Mazurka"?