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Claude Thornhill

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Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. [1]

80 relations: A Sunday Kind of Love, Ahmad Jamal, All Media Network, AllMusic, Annie Laurie, Artie Shaw, Austin Wylie, Avalanche, Babes in Arms, Barry Galbraith, BBC Big Band, Benny Goodman, Bill Barber, Billie Holiday, Billy Vaughn, Birth of the Cool, Bob Hope, Boston Pops Orchestra, Bucky Pizzarelli, Caldwell, New Jersey, Casa Loma Orchestra, Chris Connor, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Clinton, Indiana, Columbia Records, Cool jazz, Danny Polo, Dennis Day, Dick Hyman, Doris Day, Drury University, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Eddie South, Emily Remler, Enoch Light, Fats Waller, Gene Bertoncini, George Shearing, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, Glen Gray, Glenn Miller, Hank Crawford, Helen Merrill, Henry Mancini, Howard Alden, Jackie Cooper, Jazz, Joe Shulman, John Williams, ..., John Zorn, Juan García Esquivel, Judy Garland, Lee Konitz, Liz Story, Maxine Sullivan, Miles Davis, Myocardial infarction, NRBQ, Paul Plimley, Paul Whiteman, Pete Rugolo, Ramsey Lewis, Ray Noble, Red Rodney, Richie Cole (musician), Skitch Henderson, Solo Hop, Springfield, Missouri, Ted Heath (bandleader), Terre Haute, Indiana, The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond, The Four Freshmen, The Manhattan Transfer, The New York Times, The Singers Unlimited, Tony Bennett, Vibrato, Wes Montgomery, WFIU. Expand index (30 more) »

A Sunday Kind of Love

"A Sunday Kind of Love" is a popular song composed by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima and was published in 1946.

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Ahmad Jamal

Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator.

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All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Annie Laurie

"Annie Laurie" is an old Scottish song based on a poem said to have been written by William Douglas (1682?–1748) of Dumfries and Galloway, about his romance with Annie Laurie (1682—1764).

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Artie Shaw

Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and actor.

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Austin Wylie

Austin James Wylie (1893 – December 7, 1947) was an American jazz bandleader.

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Avalanche

An avalanche (also called a snowslide) is a cohesive slab of snow lying upon a weaker layer of snow in the snowpack that fractures and slides down a steep slope when triggered.

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Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart.

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Barry Galbraith

Joseph Barry Galbraith (December 18, 1919, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - January 13, 1983, Bennington, Vermont) was an American jazz guitarist.

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BBC Big Band

The BBC Big Band, originally known as the BBC Radio Big Band is a British big band run under the auspices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

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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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Bill Barber

William Charles Barber (born July 11, 1952) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played twelve seasons for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Billy Vaughn

William Richard Vaughn (April 12, 1919 – September 26, 1991) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A&R man for Dot Records.

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Birth of the Cool

Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1957 on Capitol Records.

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Bob Hope

Sir Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an English-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author.

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Boston Pops Orchestra

The Boston Pops Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts that specializes in playing light classical and popular music.

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Bucky Pizzarelli

John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli (born January 9, 1926) is an American jazz guitarist.

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Caldwell, New Jersey

Caldwell is a borough located in northwestern Essex County, New Jersey, about outside of New York City and 6 miles west of Newark.

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Casa Loma Orchestra

The Casa Loma Orchestra was an American dance band active from 1927 to 1963.

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Chris Connor

Chris Connor (November 8, 1927 – August 29, 2009) was an American jazz singer.

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Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school, founded in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Clinton, Indiana

Clinton is a city in Clinton Township, Vermillion County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music that arose in the United States after World War II.

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Danny Polo

Danny Polo (real name Pollo)(December 22, 1901 – July 11, 1949) was an American jazz clarinetist.

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Dennis Day

Dennis Day (born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty; May 21, 1916 – June 22, 1988) was an American singer, radio, television and film personality and comedian of Irish descent.

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Dick Hyman

Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Doris Day

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922) is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.

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Drury University

Drury University, formerly Drury College and originally Springfield College, is a private liberal arts college in Springfield, Missouri.

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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Edward F. Davis (March 2, 1922 – November 3, 1986), known professionally as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Eddie South

Eddie South (Louisiana, Missouri, November 27, 1904 – April 25, 1962) was an American jazz violinist.

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Emily Remler

Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 – May 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist in the 1980s.

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Enoch Light

Enoch Henry Light (18 August 1905, in Canton, Ohio – 31 July 1978, in Redding, Connecticut) was a classically trained violinist, danceband leader, and recording engineer.

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Fats Waller

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

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Gene Bertoncini

Gene J. Bertoncini (born 6 April 1937) is an American jazz guitarist.

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George Shearing

Sir George Shearing, OBE (13 August 1919 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records.

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

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Gil Evans

Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans (born Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader.

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Glen Gray

Glenn Gray Knoblauch (June 7, 1900 – August 23, 1963), known professionally as Glen Gray, was a jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) The website for Arlington National Cemetery refers to Glenn Miller as "missing in action since Dec.

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Hank Crawford

Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. (December 21, 1934 – January 29, 2009) was an American R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter.

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Helen Merrill

Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic July 21, 1930) is an American jazz vocalist.

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Henry Mancini

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores.

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Howard Alden

Howard Alden (born October 17, 1958) is an American jazz guitarist born in Newport Beach, California.

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Jackie Cooper

John Cooper Jr. (September 15, 1922 – May 3, 2011) was an American actor, television director, producer and executive.

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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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Joe Shulman

Joseph "Joe" Shulman (September 12, 1923 – August 2, 1957) was an American jazz bassist.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

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John Zorn

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres, including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music.

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Juan García Esquivel

Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002), often simply known as Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films.

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Judy Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian.

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Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an American composer and alto saxophonist.

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Liz Story

Liz Story (born October 28, 1956) is an American pianist.

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Maxine Sullivan

Maxine Sullivan (May 13, 1911 – April 7, 1987), born Marietta Williams in Homestead, Pennsylvania, was an American jazz vocalist and performer.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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NRBQ

NRBQ is an American rock brand founded in 1966.

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Paul Plimley

Paul (Horace) Plimley (born 16 March 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a free jazz pianist and vibraphonist.

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Paul Whiteman

Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.

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Pete Rugolo

Pietro "Pete" Rugolo (December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American jazz composer, arranger and record producer.

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Ramsey Lewis

Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. (born May 27, 1935) is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality.

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Ray Noble

Raymond Stanley Noble (17 December 1903 – 3 April 1978) was an English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian, and actor.

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Red Rodney

Robert Roland Chudnick (September 27, 1927 – May 27, 1994), known professionally as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Richie Cole (musician)

Richie Cole (born February 29, 1948) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Skitch Henderson

Lyle Russell Cedric "Skitch" Henderson (January 27, 1918 – November 1, 2005) was a pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Solo Hop

Solo Hop is a 1935 instrumental composed by Glenn Miller and released as a Columbia 78 single.

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Springfield, Missouri

Springfield is the third-largest city in the state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County.

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Ted Heath (bandleader)

George Edward "Ted" Heath (30 March 1902 – 18 November 1969) was an English musician and big band leader.

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Terre Haute, Indiana

Terre Haute is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, near the state's western border with Illinois.

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The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond

"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or simply "Loch Lomond" for short, is a well-known traditional Scottish song (Roud No. 9598) first published in 1841 in Vocal Melodies of Scotland.

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The Four Freshmen

The Four Freshmen is an American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires (Glenn Miller), The Pied Pipers (Tommy Dorsey), and The Mel-Tones (Mel Tormé, Artie Shaw), founded in the barbershop tradition.

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The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is a jazz vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored a capella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Singers Unlimited

The Singers Unlimited was a four-part jazz vocal group formed in 1971 by Gene Puerling.

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Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz.

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Vibrato

Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.

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Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist.

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WFIU

WFIU is a public radio FM station broadcasting from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Thornhill

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