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Richard Bona was born in Cameroon. He was 10 years old when he built his first bass guitar out of a cardboard box and bicycle brake cables. Now based in New York, this collaborator of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Sting has won over audiences with his Afro-influenced music and his multilingual vocals. The Frankfurt Radio Big Band is conducted by Michael Philip Mossman.

His performance with the WDR Big Band at the Leverkusen Jazz Days is a premiere and an absolute highlight, with which the Leverkusen Jazz Days 2025 will open their festival.

American Robben Ford started out playing jazz saxophone because he admired Paul Desmond. But he soon swapped this instrument for an electric guitar. A few years later, Musician magazine named him one of the 100 best guitarists of the 20th century. Big names in jazz, rock and pop, including Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Bob Dylan, asked him to join their bands.

The 1979 Berlin Jazz Festival was a showcase for the international jazz elite—and right in the middle of it all was Lionel Hampton. The vibraphone virtuoso and entertainer thrilled audiences with his explosive mix of swing, blues, and showmanship. His performance was one of the highlights of the renowned festival, which has made Berlin a jazz metropolis since the 1960s. A historic concert moment.

The "Mario & Zelda Big Band Live" concert was held on September 14th, 2003, at the Nihon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The DVD recording of this event was bundled with the Japanese gaming magazine "Nintendo Dream" vol. 101. Mario & Zelda Big Band Live was, as the name suggests, live performances of Mario and Zelda music arranged into jazz, Latin, country, and bluegrass. The host, Ashura Benimaru Itoh, started off the concert with an awesome guitar arrangement of the Super Mario Bros. "main theme" and "underworld theme." The performances that followed were divided almost evenly between the Tokyo CubaBoys Jr. (The Big Band of Rogues) and Mr. Yoshihiro Arita (with his band)

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The Art of Recording a Big Band was filmed at the famed Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California USA over two days during a recording session by Al Schmitt featuring Chris Walden's Grammy-nominated 18-piece jazz big band. The film focuses on the legendary Al Schmitt, the most celebrated music engineer, producer and mixer of all time winning 22 GRAMMY Awards. The educational and inspirational documentary includes interviews with Al's longtime partner Steve Genewick as well as Chris Walden, Dave Pensado, Ryan Hewitt, Kenny Wild, Paula Salvatore and a cameo appearance by engineer and mixer Andrew Scheps. Longtime friend and collaborator, Quincy jones provides a poignant open statement about the importance of "the person who captures the sound".

Twelve never-before-seen performances from this jazz crooner, the finger-snapping musician John Pizzarelli. The charismatic and emotionally warm singer combines elements of jazz, pop, and swing music to create smoothly effective music. LIVE IN MONTREAL features Pizzarelli singing songs including "All of Me," "Lady Be Good" and "Roslyn," along with an personal interview and relaxed, fun behind-the-scenes footage.

Zawinul is onstage with the WDR Big Band from Germany and a special international rhythm section. The music is a tribute to the pioneering 1970s fusion collective Weather Report, originally with Wayne Shorter on sax, Zawinul on keys, and later Jaco Pastorius on bass (among other personnel). Zawinul and the WDR play "Brown Street" and "Carnavalito." Arranger Vince Mendoza re-imagines this colorful, small-group music for Europe's longest-lived jazz orchestra. And they can play!

This 1952 recording includes 2 performances of Duke and his Orchestra, one on Jan. 7, 1952 and one on Aug. 12, 1952. 12 of his signature pieces are featured including Sophisticated Lady, Caravan, The Mooch, VP's Boogie, Solitude, Mood Indigo, The Hawk . Tracklist: 1. Sophisticated Lady 2. Caravan 3. The Mooche 4. VIP's Boogie 5. Solitude 6. Mood Indigo 7. The Hawk Talks 8. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 9. Bli-Blip 10. Flamingo 11. Cottontail 12. C Jam Blues (Hot Chocolate)

The New York Big Band Concert is a live performance DVD with Harry Connick, Jr. and his big band. Songs Include: Sweet Georgia Brown, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Recipe for Love, Bare Necessities, They Can't Take That Away from Me, You Didn't Know Me When, He Is They Are, With Imagination, We are in Love, It Had to Be You, Just Kiss Me, All of Me

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Singer Peter Marshall hosts a look back at the bands and singers of the big band era of the 1930s-1950s.

“The Otherworldly Big Band Experience” is about wanting to show even more of what ENSLAVED is: ENSLAVED is also an idea. It is a live band that is teeth-grittingly metal, has rock’n’roll in its DNA, while maintaining and expanding on its position as a groundbreaking progressive metal act. All while exploring the boundaries of Norse Mythology and Rune-lore, Psychology and History. We have recruited both an extension to the line-up with the young and talented Bergen prog rock band Shaman Elephant. We have worked together with some of the most talented moviemakers and visual wizards around - also young and from Bergen: KolibriMedia. Add the Enslaved live crew to the mix and you have got magick, no less. We have aspired to create a concert film that reflects this expanded representation of ENSLAVED and cannot wait to show you all. It is bigger than any project we have done before, and it is unlike anything else you have seen in this kind of music.

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Savor the sounds of big band jazz and swing with this compendium of live performance clips from some of the genre's most legendary musicians. Besides innovative clarinetist, composer and bandleader Artie Shaw and the incomparably elegant pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington, other featured artists include trombonist Jack Teagarden, singer and bandleader Cab Calloway and bandleader Boyd Raeburn.

Video of a performance by the band for AIX Records.

Phenomenal drum technician Louie Bellson, who revived the Duke Ellington Orchestra during the 1950s, leads his own group in this live concert performance from Switzerland. Randy and Michael Brecker, Lew Soloff, Tom Malone, Herb Geller, Howard Johnson and Gil Goldstein are some of the featured soloists. Songs include "Explosion," "Samantha," "Niles Ahead," "The Drum Squad," "Blues for Freddy," and "We've Come a Long Way Together."

Quincy Jones Big Band in Switzerland "Birth of a band"; "The midnight sun will never set" by Dorcas Cochran, Quincy Jones, Henri Salvador; "Stockholm sweetnin'" by and arr Quincy Jones; "I remember Clifford" by Benny Golson, arr Nat Pierce; "Walkin'" by Richard Carpenter; "Parisian thoroughfare" by Clifford Brown; "Everybody's blues", "Ghana", "Big Red" by Ernie Wilkins; "My reverie" by Larry Clinton. (Songs). Quincy Jones and his Orchestra:- Benny Bailey, Roger Guérin, Leonard Johnson, Floyd Standifer, trumpet, fluegel horn; Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson, Melba Liston, Åke Persson, trombone; Julius Watkins, French horn; Phil Woods, Porter Kilbert, alto sax; Jerome Richardson, tenor sax, flute, piccolo; Sahib Shihab, baritone sax; Patti Brown, piano; Les Spann, guitar, flute; Buddy Catlett, acoustic double bass; Joe Harris, drums. (Personnel On Camera). Recorded on 20th May 1960 in the Municipal Theatre, Lausanne. Motion Picture (Form).

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early sound-era “all-star” musical productions.

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.

Charged with the electricity of a heavyweight prizefight, " The Main Event " was filmed live at Madison Square Garden, a venue usually reserved for sporting events and rock 'n' roll concerts. Sinatrra dazzies the crowd with contemporay numbers as " You are the Sunshine of My Life ", " Let Me Try Again " and delivers the knockout blow with signature tunes " My Kind of Town " and " My Way ".

Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.

Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.

When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.

Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.

As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at her. After Ginny collapses and is taken to her dressing room, the woman, Julia Westcolt, a friend of Ginny's, dashes backstage, discards her veil, and then congratulates her friend on their successful publicity stunt. When Ginny's press agents, Gus Crane and his son Junior, visit their client backstage, she brags about her feat and chides them for not being more creative in promoting her. Horrified at Ginny's brashness, Junior, a conservative Harvard graduate, chastises her and leaves the room.

The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

Set in 1947, Knights of Swing is a feature film that chronicles a group of young jazz musicians whose dream is to form a “really swingin’ Big Band”. Unfortunately, things prove much more complicated when the community objects to the diversity of the band. Alliances form, and lines are drawn. What follows is soul searching, uplifting, and through music, our story illuminates forgiveness, healing and unconditional love.

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But trouble starts when her boss (William Wright) decides to build her up as a star. One of the many bread-and-butter Columbia productions graced by the contributions of Cole’s in-house dance studio. Cole dances behind Miller in “I’m Gonna See My Baby.” --Museum of Modern Art

A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.

In this MGM Miniature Musical, Harry Owens and his orchestra perform several song numbers.

A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ballrooms. The soundtracks of the great musical films and TV shows. Sex and romance, gangsters, luxury cars and palm trees. From Barcelona to New York, with a stop in Cuba. The birth of Las Vegas. The sound of the maracas. Chihuahuas everywhere. The incredible life story of Xavier Cugat (1900-90).

Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra provide the title element with their snappy tunes fronted at different times by just starting out Betty Grable & Leif Erickson.

The musical short features a romantic story that ties in with the music of Stan Kenton and his Orchestra with June Christy and the Pastels.

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MC Solaar, perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.

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Multi-instrumentalist Warren Wolf and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, conducted by Dary James Argue, present Grand Vibes. A number of tracks are taken from Warren Wolf's album History of the Vibraphone (2024), a fine demonstration of the eclecticism and virtuosity of this internationally acclaimed musician.