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Woody has been a jazz fan for about 30 years, starting with the diverse sounds of Maynard Ferguson's bands of the 1970s.

The legacy of Dizzy Gillespie 's pioneering bebop big band could not be served better than by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, the successor to the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band that featured Jon Faddis.

When David Gibson moved to New York City in 1999, he was a little known musician with the desire to create music at the highest level.

Dan Frankowski is a thinker, novelty-seeker, trumpet player, and composer. He was raised in the Twin Cities, where his high school band and the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies were early crucibles, with peers like Michael Bland and Michael Sutton .

SOURCE: Kim Smith Public Relations "Others grew by inches 'Trane grew by yards. I use that as an example." Dr.

SOURCE: Kim Smith Public Relations "Others grew by inches 'Trane grew by yards. I use that as an example." Dr.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Earlier this year, Steve Wiest was appointed director of the University of North Texas' celebrated, world-traveling jazz group, the One O'Clock Lab Band.

Dizzy Gillespie, who died in 1993 aged 76, was the puffed-cheeked trumpet virtuoso at the centre of the modern jazz revolution of the 1940s and a ground-breaking experimenter with Cuban musical traditions.

Lake Effect contributor Rob Ricigliano talks about a recent trip to Cambodia, where he participated in a multi-agency approach to foreign policy.

London, Your rating Click on a star to rate Jack Massarik's rating Reader rating Add your review Description: The well-renowned practitioners of jazz play songs from their album Dizzy s Business.

The show must go on, and Slide Hampton, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra's special guest, proved to be a trouper despite being under the weather last night in the first of his six gigs at the Southern Theatre.

All About Jazz is celebrating Slide Hampton's birthday today! Slide Hampton Slide Hampton\'s distinguished career spans decades in the evolution of jazz.