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All In Good Time (Rob McConnell Album)
''All in Good Time'' is an album by Rob McConnell Robert Murray Gordon McConnell (14 February 1935 – 1 May 2010) was a Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.Jeff Sultanof. Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener's Companion'. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 8 November 2017. . p ... and the Boss Brass that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1984. Track listing Personnel * Rob McConnell – valve trombone * Jerry Toth – alto saxophone, clarinet * Moe Koffman – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, piccolo * Bob Leonard – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet * Eugene Amaro – tenor saxophone, flute * Rick Wilkins – tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet * Ian McDougall, Bob Livingston, Dave McMurdo – trombone * Ron Hughes – bass trombone * Guido Basso, Erich Traugott, Arnie Chycoski, Dave Woods, John MacLeod – trumpet, flugelhorn * George Stimpson, James MacDonald – French horn * Jimmy Dale – piano, electric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob McConnell
Robert Murray Gordon McConnell (14 February 1935 – 1 May 2010) was a Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.Jeff Sultanof. Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener's Companion'. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 8 November 2017. . p. 150. McConnell is best known for establishing and leading the big band The Boss Brass, which he directed from 1967 to 1999. Biography McConnell was born in London, Ontario, Canada, and took up the valve trombone in high school. He began his performing career in the early 1950s, performing and studying with Clifford Brown, Don Thompson (musician), Don Thompson, Bobby Gimby, and later with Canadian trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. He studied music theory with Gordon Delamont. In 1968 he formed ''The Boss Brass'', a big band that became his primary performing and recording unit through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loonis McGlohon
Loonis McGlohon (September 29, 1921 – January 26, 2002) was an American songwriter and jazz pianist. Biography McGlohon was born in Ayden, North Carolina, and graduated from East Carolina University. After a spell in the Air Force during World War II, he played with the Jimmy Dorsey and Jack Teagarden orchestras and became involved with broadcasting in Charlotte, North Carolina, working as music director for WBT (AM) radio and WBTV (Charlotte's CBS-TV affiliate)."McGlohon, 80; Wrote Hundreds of Songs" obituary in ''Los Angeles Times'', February 20, 2002 McGlohon was an accompanist to many well-known singers including , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno Award For Best Jazz Album Albums
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Palo Alto Records Albums
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Big Band Albums
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Terry Clarke (drummer)
Terence Michael "Terry" Clarke Order of Canada, C.M. (born August 20, 1944, Vancouver) is a Canadian jazz drummer. Clarke studied percussion with Jim Blackley and played with Chris Gage and Dave Robbins (trombonist), Dave Robbins early in his career. From 1965 to 1967 he toured in a quintet with John Handy, and joined The Fifth Dimension in 1967, remaining with the ensemble until 1969. In 1970, he moved to Toronto, where he began a longstanding association with Rob McConnell's group, Boss Brass; he also played with Ed Bickert, Ruby Braff, Jim Galloway, Sonny Greenwich, Jay McShann, Emily Remler, and Frank Rosolino. In 1976, he toured with Jim Hall (musician), Jim Hall for the first time and in 1981 did an international tour with Oscar Peterson. He relocated to New York City in 1985, where he played or recorded with Toshiko Akiyoshi, Eddie Daniels, Oliver Jones (pianist), Oliver Jones, Roger Kellaway, Helen Merrill, Ken Peplowski, and Joe Roccisano, among others. He played with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Bickert
Edward Isaac Bickert, (November 29, 1932 – February 28, 2019) was a Canadian guitarist who played mainstream jazz and swing music. Bickert worked professionally from the mid-1950s to 2000, mainly in the Toronto area. His international reputation grew steadily from the mid-1970s onward as he recorded albums both as a bandleader and as a backing musician for Paul Desmond, Rosemary Clooney, and other artists, with whom he toured in North America, Europe and Japan. Early life Bickert was born in the small Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonite, Mennonite village of Hochfeld, Manitoba to Harry Bickert, a Russian Mennonite immigrant from Molotschna colony and Helen Dyck of Plum Coulee, Manitoba. Bickert's parents were semi-professional musicians, his father playing fiddle and his mother playing piano. As a child, Bickert and his family moved to Vernon, British Columbia where his parents operated a chicken farm and had a small country dance band. When he was ten years old, Bickert s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Dale (musician)
Jimmy Dale (23 October 1935 – 20 May 2017) was a British-born Canadian arranger, composer, conductor, organist, and pianist. He was active as a music director for both Canadian and United States television during the 1970s and 1980s. He has also composed several film and television scores and written a number of TV theme songs and jingles. He has also worked as an arranger and pianist for both performances and recordings with several notable artists. Life Born James Edwin Dale in London, Dale immigrated to Canada with his family in 1947 at the age of 11. He attended The Royal Conservatory of Music for two years where he was a pupil of pianist Alma Allen. He also studied music theory and music composition privately in Toronto with Gordon Delamont. Dale began his career playing in dance bands and pit orchestras in Toronto during the 1950s. In 1957 he joined Peter Appleyard's newly formed jazz ensemble with whom he played and toured for two years. In the early 1960s he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Basso
Guido Basso (27 September 1937 – 13 February 2023) was a Canadian jazz musician who was a member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass big band. He was a trumpeter, flugelhornist, arranger, composer, and conductor. Early life Guido Basso was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 27 September 1937. He grew up in the Little Italy neighbourhood of Montreal, in an Italian-Canadian family. He began playing the trumpet at the age of nine. He studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. His professional music career started in his teens, under the name "Stubby Basso". During his early-20s, Basso performed regularly at the El Morocco in Montreal, and played in bands led by Maury Kaye. Singer Vic Damone discovered Basso playing at the El Morocco, then included him on a tour from 1957 to 1958. Career Basso had a professional career as a composer, conductor, arranger, trumpeter, flugelhornist, and harmonica player. The Canadian Encyclopedia wrote that Basso was "one of Canada's pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McDougall (musician)
Ian McDougall (born 14 June 1938) is a Canadian jazz musician who played lead trombone for Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass. Life and career McDougall was born in Calgary, and grew up in Victoria. At the age of 11, he joined the Victoria Boy’s Band, wanting to be a drummer. Disappointed at not playing a full drum kit, he thought he'd like to try trumpet instead, but his father intervened: "Play the trombone, son, because a good trombone player is never out of work." Starting at the age of 13, he started playing at venues around Victoria. McDougall left Victoria in 1960 to tour in Great Britain with the John Dankworth Band. He returned to Vancouver in 1962, was a freelance player, and played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and at the Cave Supper Club, under the leadership of Fraser MacPherson. He began studying at the University of British Columbia, earning Bachelor of Music (1966), and Master of Music (1970). In 1970 he co-founded the fusion group Pacific Salt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Wilkins (musician)
Rick Herbert Richard Wilkins (born 1 February 1937) is a Canadian composer,Jazz Times'. Vol. 26, Issues 1-5. Jazztimes; 1996. p. 116. conductor,Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture'. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press; 20 May 2010. . p. 235. and tenor saxophonist.Jeff Sultanof. Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener's Companion'. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 8 November 2017. . p. 150. He is primarily known for his work as an arranger. He has worked extensively for CBC and CTV arranging, rehearsing, and often conducting music for television and radio programs of pop-music and variety entertainments. He has arranged music for television specials featuring Julie Amato, Tommy Ambrose, Guido Basso, the Canadian Brass, Burton Cummings, Anne Murray, and Wayne and Shuster among others. In 1976-1977 he worked as a music director for CBS in Los Angeles, where among his projects was directing music for a number of specials starring the Jackson Five. Early life and educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moe Koffman
Morris "Moe" Koffman, OC (28 December 1928 – 28 March 2001) was a Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist, as well as composer and arranger. During a career spanning from the 1950s into the 2000s, Koffman was one of Canada's most prolific musicians, working variously in clubs and sessions and releasing 30 albums. With his 1957 record ''Cool and Hot Sax'' on the New York-based Jubilee label, Koffman became one of the first Canadian jazz musicians to record a full-length album. Koffman was also a long-time member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass. His most famous pieces, "Curried Soul" and "Koff Drops", have been the theme music for the CBC Radio One show, '' As It Happens'', for over 50 years. Early life and education Koffman was born in Toronto to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents operated a variety store. At the age of nine he began his musical studies in his native city, studying violin. He studied with Gordon Delamont, and later attended the Toronto Conservatory of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
