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Bill Smith (jazz musician)

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William Overton Smith (born September 22, 1926) is a U.S. clarinetist and composer. [1]

38 relations: Americans in Europe, Anthony Braxton, Aulos, Barney Kessel, Benny Goodman, Brubeck à la mode, Carmen (Barney Kessel album), Clarinet, Composer, Composition No. 96, Concerto for Clarinet & Combo, Conservatoire de Paris, Darius Milhaud, Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck Octet, Guggenheim Fellowship, Gunther Schuller, Jazz, Juilliard School, Kelly's Stables (New York City), List of clarinetists, Mills College, Modernism (music), Oakland, California, Paul Desmond, Robert Suderburg, Roger Sessions, Rome Prize, Sacramento, California, Seattle, Shelly Manne, Stanley Sadie, Stuart Dempster, Third stream, United States, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, University of Washington.

Americans in Europe

Americans in Europe is the title of two live albums by American jazz musicians recorded in West Germany in 1963 and released on the Impulse! label.

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.

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Aulos

An aulos (αὐλός, plural αὐλοί, auloi) or tibia (Latin) was an ancient Greek wind instrument, depicted often in art and also attested by archaeology.

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Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Brubeck à la mode

Brubeck à la mode is 1960 studio album by pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet.

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Carmen (Barney Kessel album)

Carmen (full title Modern Jazz Performances from Bizet's Carmen and also referred to as Kessel Plays Carmen) is an album by guitarist Barney Kessel performing adaptations of pieces from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen recorded in late 1958 and released on the Contemporary label.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Composition No. 96

Composition No.

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Concerto for Clarinet & Combo

Concerto for Clarinet & Combo (full title Premiere Recording of Concerto for Clarinet & Combo by Bill Smith, with the Composer on Clarinet, & Bags' Groove, Sophisticated Rabbit, My Old Flame) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne's group Shelly Manne & His Men recorded at sessions in 1955 and 1957 and released on the Contemporary label.

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Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris (English: Paris Conservatory) is a college of music and dance founded in 1795 associated with PSL Research University.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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Dave Brubeck Octet

The Dave Brubeck Octet is a jazz album released by The Dave Brubeck Octet in 1956.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian and jazz musician.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, informally referred to as Juilliard and located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905.

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Kelly's Stables (New York City)

Kelly’s Stables, also referred to as Kelly’s Stable, was a jazz club on Manhattan's 52nd Street in New York City, opened by jazz band leader Bert Kelly.

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List of clarinetists

This article lists notable musicians who have played the clarinet.

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Mills College

Mills College is a liberal arts and sciences college located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Modernism (music)

In music, modernism is a philosophical and aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Paul Desmond

Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for composing that group's biggest hit, "Take Five".

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Robert Suderburg

Robert Charles Suderburg (28 January 1936 in Spencer, Iowa – 22 April 2013 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) was an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Roger Sessions

Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music.

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Rome Prize

The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, selected via a national competition.

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Shelly Manne

Sheldon "Shelly" Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984), was an American jazz drummer.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie, CBE (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.

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Stuart Dempster

Stuart Dempster (born July 7, 1936 in Berkeley, California) is a trombonist, didjeridu player, improvisor, and composer.

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Third stream

Third Stream is a term coined in 1957 by composer Gunther Schuller, in a lecture at Brandeis University, to describe a musical synthesis of jazz and classical music.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (commonly referred to as UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Smith_(jazz_musician)

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