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The Swing Era was over, bebop and small-band jazz were taking hold.
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Actually, a lot of the best small-band music of the swing era from Benny Goodman to Count Basie to Duke Ellington was partially worked out, at least in some form of head arrangement.
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That's just my own personal prejudice, not a universal belief; many people are disappointed with the original small-band Broadway orchestrations of South Pacific or The Sound of Music after experiencing the Fox movie versions.
Movie Musicals, Orchestrations, And Ray Heindorf Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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That's just my own personal prejudice, not a universal belief; many people are disappointed with the original small-band Broadway orchestrations of South Pacific or The Sound of Music after experiencing the Fox movie versions.
Archive 2008-11-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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Led mostly by the pianist Teddy Wilson, these sessions remain the epitome of small-band jazz of the '30s and are as perfect in their way as anything American culture has produced.
Laissez Faire In The Studio The 'Discoveries' Of John Hammond 2006
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The musicians Jeffrey Neiman on piano, Jay Leonhart on bass and Sherrie Maricle on drums were supplemented midway in the show by John Eckert on trumpet, Mike Christianson on trombone and Patience Higgins on saxophone and flute, who help recreate the small-band sound of Short's later years.
NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN HOLDEN 2011
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The musicians Jeffrey Neiman on piano, Jay Leonhart on bass and Sherrie Maricle on drums were supplemented midway in the show by John Eckert on trumpet, Mike Christianson on trombone and Patience Higgins on saxophone and flute, who help recreate the small-band sound of Short's later years.
NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN HOLDEN 2011
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We Hung Your Leader digitally released their 4-track E.P. over the New Year and would love to be involved in the small-band round up.
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Also, after some small-band musicians point out that they’re also being harmed by downloading, he apologizes for that comparison in his post.
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The series’ title, of course, comes from Gunther Schuller’s formulation for a classically motivated form of jazz music: “third stream” was meant to describe the overlap of chamber composition and meditative jazz improvisation, anything from Stan Kenton’s conceptual big-band charts to George Russell’s theoretically informed small-band stuff.
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