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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)

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.

The three presenters show how Blackpool stayed open as there were several thousand servicemen and women billeted here during WW2. Morale was important to the war effort.

Phil Collins, with members of his band, together with conductor Quincy Jones and special guests including Tony Bennett, David Sanborn and members of the WDR Big Band, play several of Collins' songs in jazz arrangements, both as a solo artist and with Genesis, as well as jazz standards and covers.

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.

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The Big Wave Project is a masterful, award-winning documentary on the art of big wave riding from veteran Australian surf filmmaker Tim Bonython. For five years, Tim followed a tight-knit crew of the world’s best big wave surfers as they each attempted a personal goal – to ride the world’s biggest wave.

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".

What's that sound that's got preschoolers' toes a-tapping and hands a-clapping? It's Blue, Joe, and all their friends playing in a band and singing their way through the day in these two musical episodes of Blue's Clues! BLUE'S BIG BAND Clap with Joe, rap with Sidetable, drum with Periwinkle, skidoo to the music, and play along with Blue's Big Band! Magenta taps the tambourine, Tickety chimes the triangle... but what instrument will Blue play? Preschoolers play a musical game of Blue's Clues to figure it out, and then play a grand finale with Blue's Big Band! Encore!

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)

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.

Video of a performance by the band for AIX Records.

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.

September 4, 2008, Barry Hay was with the Metropole Big Band led by Jules Buckley in Paradiso, where he played all songs from his album The Big Band Theory for the first time.

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!

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Mickey and friends practice their band's music for the Mickey Park Polka-Palooza Dance Festival where the elephants will dance the Pachyderm Polka. (The Sensational Six: Mickey on ukulele, Donald on tuba, Minnie on piano, Daisy on xylophone, Goofy on trombone, and Pluto as metronome), but their instruments need to be fixed (Minnie's Piano have the wrong pitch, Goofy's trombone slide is stuck, Daisy's xylophone is falling apart, Mickey's ukulele strings are out of tune, Donald's papers blow away).

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.

Cole Porter times three! Al Kemp and His Orchestra swing "Begin the Beguine," Emil Coleman and His Orchestra sell us "Just One of Those Things," and Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra love some "(Let's Do It) Let's Fall in Love."

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.

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 ".

A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed.

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

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The mice are on the loose after hours in a doctor's office, playing with the various pieces of medical apparatus. Susie Mouse is caged for research until her lover Johnnie frees her. A mouse orchestra plays a swinging wedding song. But throughout, a cat is stalking...

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.

In late 1950s Poland, jazzman Fabian returns from England and forms a swing big band that quickly rises to fame. Their glamorous new singer, the enigmatic Modesta, becomes both the group’s star and Fabian’s love interest. As their success begins to resemble a Hollywood musical, the authorities take a growing interest in their world of music and romance.

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.

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 country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, manages to restore the optimism of a jaded and disillusioned nightclub owner. Eventually, she marries the manager of one of the man's nightclubs.

A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.

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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.

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.

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).

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.

At the Leverkusen Jazz Festival, Alma Naidu performs on the piano- her favourite instrument- accompanied by a string quartet.

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.