Wayne Bergeron (born January 16, 1958) is an American jazz

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. Bergeron rose to prominence as a member of

Maynard Ferguson Walter Maynard Ferguson CM (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957. He was noted for his bands, which often serv ...

's band in the 1980s. Since then, he has worked on over 400 TV and motion picture soundtracks. As a lead and studio player, he is notable for his ability in the upper register of the instrument, as in his screaming trumpet work in the soundtrack for the 2004 Disney/Pixar animated movie ''

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''. Bergeron is on faculty at the Los Angeles College of Music and is principal trumpet for the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.

Life and career

Bergeron was born in

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, and grew up in

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. His first instrument was the

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but in his early teens he switched to trumpet. Early on in his career he could play in a high register on the trumpet, a skill that takes most trumpeters years to develop. Bergeron has said it was difficult for him to learn the trumpet because he played everything up two octaves. He could play a double high C (C7) before he could play low C (C4/middle C). In 1986, he won the spot of lead trumpeter for

's band. He has recorded as a sideman for

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, and

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; he contributed to the movies ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

'', and ''

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''. Bergeron has held the role of lead trumpet in Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band since the band was founded and has had two solo charts written for him: "Horn of Puente" from '' XXL'' and "Years of Therapy" from ''Life in the Bubble''. His debut album as a solo musician was ''You Call This a Living?'' (2002), featuring the "Friend Like Me" arranged by Bill Liston. The album also features fellow Maynard Ferguson alumnus

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on drums and Big Phat Band alumnus

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on saxophone. His next album, ''Plays Well with Others'' (2007) received critical acclaim and was nominated for a Grammy Award. The album features

in one of his last performances on the track "Maynard & Waynard". In 2013, Bergeron designed his own range of trumpet mouthpieces. He was initiated as National Honorary member of

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America (colloquially known as Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Phi Mu Alpha, or simply Sinfonia) () is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music. The fraternity is open to men "w ...

music fraternity and a Signature Sinfonian at the National Convention in New Orleans in 2015.

Discography

As leader

* ''You Call This a Living?'' (Wag, 2002) * ''Plays Well with Others'' (

Concord Jazz Concord Jazz is a record company and label founded in 1973 by Carl Jefferson, the former owner of Jefferson Motors Lincoln Mercury dealership in Concord, California. The label was named after the city in the East San Francisco Bay area, and the ...

, 2007) * ''Full Circle'' (Wayne Bergeron, 2016) * “Music and Mistletoe” (Wayne Bergeron and the After Hours Brass, 2012)

As sideman or guest

With

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* ''Swing Fever'' (Wayland, 1994) * ''Calling All Jitterbugs!'' (Wayland, 1997) * ''Swingin' the Century'' (Wayland, 1999) With

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* '' Big City Rhythms'' (Concord, 1999) * ''

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'' (Concord, 2008) * ''Sinatra Project Vol. II'' (Concord, 2011) With

* ''Body & Soul'' (BlackHawk, 1986) * ''Big Bop Nouveau'' (Intima, 1990) * ''Brass Attitude'' (Concord, 1998) With Bob Florence * ''Funupsmanship'' (MAMA, 1993) * ''With All the Bells and Whistles'' (MAMA, 1995) * ''Earth'' (MAMA, 1997) * '' Serendipity 18'' (MAMA, 1998) * ''Whatever Bubbles Up'' (Summit, 2003) With Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band * '' Swingin' for the Fences'' (Silverline, 2000) * '' XXL'' (Silverline, 2003) * '' The Phat Pack'' (Immergent, 2006) * '' Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas'' (soundtrack) (Immergent, 2006) * '' Act Your Age'' (Immergent, 2008) * ''

That's How We Roll ''That's How We Roll'' is the fifth studio album by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, or simply The Big Phat Band, is an 18-piece jazz orchestra that combines the big band swing of the 1930s and 1940s with contemp ...

'' (Telarc, 2011) * '' Life in the Bubble'' (Telarc, 2014) * ''Wrap This!'' (Music of Content, 2015) * ''The Gordian Knot'' (Music of Content, 2019) With

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* ''Slightly Off the Ground'' (Sea Breeze, 1989) * ''At Last'' (Cexton, 1992) * ''It's Not Just for Christmas Anymore!'' (Cexton, 1995) * ''Fast Cars & Fascinating Women'' (Sea Breeze, 1996) * ''You Just Can't Have Enough Christmas!'' (Cexton, 1997) * ''Keep Swingin' '' (Sea Breeze, 1997) * ''A Jazz Musician's Christmas'' (Sea Breeze, 2002) * ''Live and Unleashed at Don the Beachcomber'' (Tom Kubis, 2013) With

John LaBarbera John LaBarbera (born November 10, 1945) is a trumpeter and arranger who worked with the Buddy Rich Orchestra during the late 1960s. Early life LaBarbera was born in Warsaw, New York, on November 10, 1945. His home town is Mount Morris, New York ...

* ''On the Wild Side'' (Jazz Compass, 2003) * ''Fantazm'' (Jazz Compass, 2005) * ''Caravan'' (Jazz Compass, 2013) With

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* ''Animals'' (Cacophony, 2004) * ''Mo' Animals'' (Cacophony, 2006) * ''Folk Songs for Jazzers'' (Cacophony, 2010) * ''Son of Folk Songs for Jazzers'' (Cacophony, 2010) * ''Frank Macchia's Swamp Thang'' (Cacophony, 2011) * ''Fried Zombie Stew'' (Cacophony, 2012) * ''Grease Mechanix'' (Cacophony, 2013) With

Barry Manilow Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", " Somewhere Down the Road", " Mandy", "I Write the Songs", " Can ...

* '' Manilow Sings Sinatra'' (Arista, 1998) With John Powell * ''Mr. & Mrs. Smith'' (Recall, 2005) * ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'' (Varese Sarabande, 2006) * ''Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!'' (Varese Sarabande, 2008) With

Chris Walden Chris Walden (born October 10, 1966 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a German composer, arranger, and conductor living in the U.S. He leads the Chris Walden Big Band, and was nominated seven times for a Grammy Award. He has written big band and orch ...

* ''Home of My Heart'' (Origin, 2005) * ''No Bounds'' (Origin, 2006) * ''Full-On!'' (Origin, 2014) With

Bill Watrous William Russell Watrous III (June 8, 1939 – July 2, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love", which he recorded on a 1993 alb ...

* ''A Time for Love'' (GNP Crescendo, 1993) * ''Space Available'' (Double-Time, 1997) * ''Kindred Spirits'' (Summit, 2006) * ''A Beautiful Friendship'' (Summit, 2014) With

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* ''

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'' (Chrysalis, 2001) * ''

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'' (Chrysalis, 2002) * ''

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'' (Island, 2013) With others *

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, '' 29'' (Lost Highway 2005) *

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, ''My Kind of Christmas'' (RCA, BMG 2000) * Christina Aguilera, ''Back to Basics'' (RCA, BMG 2006) *

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, ''Classic Songs My Way'' (Universal, 2007) * Paul Anka, ''Songs of December'' (Decca, 2012) *

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, ''Avenged Sevenfold'' (Warner Bros., 2007) * Tyler Bates, ''Watchmen'' (Reprise/Warner Sunset 2009) *

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, ''The Peanuts Movie'' (Fox, 2015) *

, ''Shaken Not Stirred'' (GRP, 1994) * David Benoit, ''Right Here, Right Now'' (GRP, 2003) *

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, ''Cinema'' (Sugar/Almud, 2015) *

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, ''In a Metal Mood'' (Hip-O 1997) *

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, ''It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing'' (Varese Sarabande, 1998) * James Brown, ''Get On Up'' (Polydor, 2014) *

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, ''

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'' (Reprise, 2013) * Luz Casal, ''La Pasion'' (Blue Note/EMI 2009) *

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, ''Gershwin 100'' (Concord Jazz, 1998) * Matt Catingub, ''I'm Getting Cement All Over You (Ewe)'' (Sea Breeze, 1991) *

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, ''Genius Loves Company'' (2004) * Ray Charles,

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, ''Ray Sings Basie Swings'' (Hear Music/Concord 2006) *

, ''

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'' (Concord Jazz, 1996) * Rosemary Clooney, ''

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'' (Concord Jazz, 1996) *

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, ''Only''(2009) *

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, '' Have a Little Faith'' (Capitol, 1994) *

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, '' Still Unforgettable'' (ATCO, 2008) *

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, ''Your Songs'' (Columbia, 2009) * Rick Cua, ''Within Reach'' (Reunion 1991) * Brian Culbertson, ''A Soulful Christmas'' (GRP, 2006) *

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, ''The Music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays'' (MAMA, 1994) *

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, ''Predators'' (La-La Land, 2010) * John Debney, ''Ice Age Collision Course'' (Varese Sarabande, 2016) *

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, ''This One's from the Heart'' (Concord Jazz, 1999) *

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, ''The Secret Life of Pets'' (Back Lot, 2016) *

, '' Up on the Roof: Songs from the Brill Building'' (Columbia, 1993) * Tim Draxl, ''Insongniac'' (Columbia, 2001) *

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, ''Holiday'' (Legacy, Sony 2014) * Kyle Eastwood, ''From There to Here'' (Columbia, 1998) *

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, ''Daisies of the Galaxy'' (Bong Load, 2000) * Eels, ''End Times'' (Cooperative, 2010) *

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, ''Such Sweet Thunder'' (Sanctuary, 2003) * Lorraine Feather, ''Dooji Wooji'' (Sanctuary, 2005) * Dirk Fischer, George Stone, ''Coming of Age'' (Sea Breeze, 2010) * Grant Geissman, ''Business As Usual'' (Positive Music 1995) *

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, ''Ratatouille'' (Walt Disney, 2007) * Michael Giacchino, ''Coco'' (Walt Disney, 2017) *

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, '' Breath of Heaven: A Christmas Collection'' (MCA Nashville 1998) *

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, '' A Christmas to Remember'' (A&M, 1999) *

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, ''The Informant!'' (New Line 2009) *

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, ''Nightfall'' (Vie 2010) * Les Hooper, ''Anything Goes Plus'' (Hooperman 1005) *

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, ''Duplicity'' (Varese Sarabande, 2009) *

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, ''La La Land'' (Interscope, 2016) * Justin Hurwitz, ''First Man'' (Back Lot/Universal, 2018) *

, ''Crazy'' (Columbia, 1994) *

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, ''Switch'' (Epic, 2005) *

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, ''The Cooler'' (Koch, 2003) * Henry Jackman, ''Ralph Spaccatutto'' (Walt Disney, 2012) *

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, ''Lay It Back'' (Branch, 2008) *

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/Sammy Nestico, ''Basie & Beyond'' (Qwest, Warner Bros. 2000) *

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, ''Welcome Home'' (Integrity Music, 1996) *

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, ''The Dance'' (Capitol, 1999) * Harald Kloser, ''The Day After Tomorrow'' (Varese Sarabande, 2004) * Christopher Lennertz, ''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' (Varese Sarabande, 2010) *

, ''One Touch'' (GRP, 1993) *

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, ''Frances the Mute'' (2005) * Andy Martin, Vic Lewis, ''The Project'' (Drewbone, 2004) *

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, ''Echo'' (Avex Trax, 2019) *

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, ''

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'' (BMG 2018) *

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, ''Music Is Better Than Words'' (Universal/Republic, 2011) * Seth MacFarlane, ''In Full Swing'' (Verve/Republic, 2017) *

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, ''Bat Out of Hell III'' (Mercury, 2006) *

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, '' Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook'' (Columbia, 2003) *

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, ''Complices'' (Warner Music Latina, 2008) *

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, ''Sneak Attack'' (Atlantic, 1981) * Michelle Nicastro, ''Reel Imagination'' (Varese Sarabande, 1994) * Sammy Nestico, ''Big Band Favorites of Sammy Nestico'' (Summit, 1998) * Sammy Nestico, ''This Is the Moment'' (Fenwood 2002) * Jennifer Nettles, ''

That Girl ''That Girl'' is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from September 8, 1966 to March 19, 1971. It starred Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring (but only sporadically employed) actress, who moves from her hometown of Brews ...

'' (Mercury Nashville 2014) *

Roger Neumann Roger Neumann (3 January 1941 – 28 November 2018) was an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, arranger, and music educator. He wrote arrangements for Count Basie, Buddy Rich, and The Beach Boys. He taught in Los Angeles and at the ...

, ''Instant Heat!'' (Sea Breeze, 1994) *

Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern-accented singing style, early Americana-influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and vari ...

, ''

Dark Matter Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe. Dark matter is called "dark" because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not ab ...

'' (Nonesuch, 2017) *

Thomas Newman Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including '' The Player'' (1992); '' The S ...

, ''Finding Dory'' (Walt Disney, Pixar 2016) *

Anita O'Day Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band a ...

, ''Rules of the Road'' (Pablo, 1993) * Bill Perkins, ''Our Man Woody'' (Jazz Mark, 1991) *

Heitor Pereira Heitor Teixeira Pereira () (born November 29, 1960), or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian composer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and record producer. In his career, Pereira has recorded with the band Simply Red and several famous musicians, such as Elt ...

, ''Minions'' (Back Lot, 2015) *

Gregory Porter Gregory Porter (born November 4, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He has twice won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album: first in 2014 for '' Liquid Spirit'' and then again in 2017 for '' Take Me to the Alley''. Early ...

, ''Nat King Cole & Me'' (Blue Note, 2017) *

Tito Puente Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. (April 20, 1923 – June 1, 2000), commonly known as Tito Puente, was an American musician, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer of Puerto Rican descent. He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz ...

, ''Special Delivery'' (Concord Jazz Picante, 1996) *

The Pussycat Dolls The Pussycat Dolls were an American girl group and dance ensemble, founded in Los Angeles, California, by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 as a burlesque troupe. At the suggestion of Jimmy Iovine, Antin decided to take the burlesque troupe ...

, ''Sway'' (A&M, 2004) * The Pussycat Dolls, ''PCD'' (A&M, 2005) *

Trevor Rabin Trevor Charles Rabin (; born ) is a South African rock musician and composer. Born into a musical family and raised in Johannesburg, Rabin took up the piano and guitar at an early age and became a session musician, playing and producing with a va ...

, ''G-Force'' (Walt Disney, 2009) *

Dianne Reeves Dianne Elizabeth Reeves (born October 23, 1956) is an American jazz singer. Biography Dianne Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan, into a musical family. Her father sang, her mother played trumpet, her uncle is bassist Charles Burrell, and he ...

, ''The Calling'' (Blue Note, 2001) * Kim Richmond, ''Passages'' (Sea Breeze, 1992) *

Arturo Sandoval Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer. While living in his native Cuba, Sandoval was influenced by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1977 he met Gillespie, who became hi ...

, ''Trumpet Evolution'' (Columbia, 2000) * Arturo Sandoval, ''Dear Diz'' (Concord Jazz, 2012) *

Diane Schuur Diane Joan Schuur (born December 10, 1953), nicknamed "Deedles", is an American jazz singer and pianist. As of 2015, Schuur had released 23 albums, and had extended her jazz repertoire to include essences of Latin, gospel, pop and country music ...

, ''Love Walked In'' (GRP, 1996) * Marilyn Scott, ''Sky Dancing'' (Sin-Drome, 1991) *

Brian Setzer Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with ...

, ''Guitar Slinger'' (InsideOut, 1996) *

, ''Jack Is Back'' (Butterfly, 1995) *

Shinedown Shinedown is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida, formed by singer Brent Smith in 2001 after the dissolution of Dreve, his previous band. Smith, still under contract with record label Atlantic Records, recruited the band's original ...

, ''Amaryllis'' (Atlantic, 2012) * Manfred Siebald, ''Nicht Vergessen'' (Haenssler, 1998) *

Keely Smith Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928The reference work ''The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet'' gives Smith's date of birth as March 9, 1932. – December 16, 2017), profession ...

, ''Keely Sings Sinatra'' (Concord Jazz, 2001) * Spies, ''Music of Espionage'' (Telarc, 1988) *

Ruben Studdard Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978) is an American singer and actor. He rose to fame as winner of the second season of ''American Idol'' and received a Grammy Award nomination in 2003 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his recording of ...

, ''Unconditional Love'' (Verve, 2014) *

Tom Talbert Thomas Robert Talbert (August 4, 1924 Crystal Bay, Minnesota – July 2, 2005 Los Angeles) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and band leader. Biography He was born on August 4, 1924, in Crystal Bay, Minnesota, and grew up listening to big b ...

, ''The Warm Cafe'' (Sea Breeze, 1993) * Randy Waldman, ''Super Heroes'' (BFM Jazz, 2018) *

Russell Watson Russell Watson is an English tenor who has released singles and albums of both operatic-style and pop songs. He began singing as a child, and became known after performing at a working men's club. He came to attention in 1999 when he sang "God ...

, ''That's Life'' (Decca, 2007) *

Lee Ann Womack Lee Ann Womack Liddell (; born August 19, 1966) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Her 2000 single, " I Hope You Dance" was a major crossover music hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and the Top ...

, ''The Season for Romance'' (MCA Nashville, 2002) * Patrick Williams, ''Sinatraland'' (EMI-Capitol, 1998) *

Brian Wilson Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Often called a genius for his novel approaches to pop composition, extraordinary musical aptitude, and m ...

, '' No Pier Pressure'' (Capitol, 2015) *

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, ''Mandatory Fun'' (RCA, 2014) *

Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Fu ...

, '' Storytone'' (Reprise, 2014)

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