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Quintet

This concert took place against all odds: Bud Powell was drunk; Charlie Parker, identified as "Charlie Chan" in the original notes, played on a plastic alto saxophone; and Dizzy Gillespie would disappear offstage to check on the status of the first Rocky Marciano-Jersey Joe Walcott heavyweight championship match.


Anne LeBaron

Her 1991 recording Phantom orchestra featured the Anne LeBaron Quintet (Frank London, trumpet; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Davey Williams, electric guitar; Gregg Bendian, drums, vibraphone, percussion; and Anne LeBaron, harp with electronics).

Arnold Cooke

The harpist Maria Korchinska introduced his Harp Quintet in 1932; Sir Henry Wood conducted his Concert Overture No.1 at the 1934 Promenade Concerts.

Auburn Lull

The quintet came together out of its members' shared affection for bands like Seefeel, Flying Saucer Attack, earlier works from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, along with many of the acts on the 4AD and Creation Records imprints.

Augie Meyers

In the early 1960s, Meyers and Doug Sahm founded the group known as the Sir Douglas Quintet.

Aya Ishiguro

Tsunku promised to take the quintet under his wing if they sold 50,000 copies of their debut single "Ai no Tane" within five days.

Basset clarinet

The British clarinetist Thea King recorded both Mozart's Quintet and Concerto on the basset clarinet for Hyperion Records, coupled together on one CD.

Boccherini Quintet

The Boccherini Quintet (Quintetto Boccherini) was a string quintet founded in Rome in 1949 when two of its original members, Arturo Bonucci and Pina Carmirelli, discovered and bought, in Paris, a complete collection of the first edition of Luigi Boccherini's 141 string quintets, and set about to promote this long neglected music.

Brigitte Fossey

Fluent in English, Fossey has appeared in several Hollywood motion pictures, including a 1979 role as the wife of Paul Newman in the Robert Altman-directed film, Quintet.

Clarinet quintet

Although a few compositions for this ensemble were produced over the following years, including the Op. 34 clarinet quintet by Carl Maria von Weber, a composer famous for his solo clarinet compositions, it was not until Johannes Brahms composed his Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 for Richard Mühlfeld that the clarinet quintet began to receive considerable attention from composers.

Dennis Ferry

Morning Song (Kellaway) for brass quintet is published by Editions Bim and his brass quintet version of Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy is published by Solid Brass Music.

Dorothy Collins

In the late 1940s, she contributed vocals to the revived Raymond Scott Quintet, a sextet that released records on the bandleader's own Master label and served as house band on the radio program Herb Shriner Time.

Eivind Opsvik

;Within 'Nate Wooley Quintet' including Harris Eisenstadt, Josh Sinton & Matt Moran

Enrique Mario Francini

In 1954 he took part in a homage to Juan Carlos Cobián in a quintet comprising the tango musicians Aníbal Troilo on bandoneon, Roberto Grela on guitar, Kicho Díaz on double bass and Horacio Salgán on piano.

Éric Legnini

He has played with fellow artists like Aldo Romano, Belmondo Quintet, John Ruocco, Félix Simtaine, Michel Hatzi, Dré Palemaerts, Emanuel Cisi, Toninho Horta, Philippe Catherine, Serge Reggiani, Hein van de Geyn, Marcia Maria, Jacques Pelzer, André Ceciarelli, Éric Le Lann, Paco Sery and others.

Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet

In 1997 the ensemble recorded the great piano chamber music of Max Reger, his Piano Quintet c minor and his two Piano Quartets (Wolfram Lorenzen, piano).

Finn Peters

The Finn Peters Quintet (or 'Finntet') beat the bands of Stan Tracey and Byron Wallen in the best jazz group category of the BBC Radio 3 Jazz Awards.

Fotheringay

Two former members of Eclection, Trevor Lucas and Gerry Conway, and two former members of Poet and the One Man Band, Jerry Donahue and Pat Donaldson (bass), completed the line-up responsible for what was long assumed to be the quintet's only album.

Gustavo Bergalli

During this time, he led his own quintet, played with the Swedish Radio Jazz Group and the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, accompanying many famous visitors such as Bob Brookmeyer, Bob Mintzer, Jim McNeely, Joe Lovano, Phil Woods, Jimmy Heath, Maria Schneider and John Scofield.

Hannes Bauer

The Manfred Schulze Wind Quintet, Doppelmoppel (with Conny Bauer, Uwe Kropinski, Helmut "Joe" Sachse), Slawterhaus (with Jon Rose, Peter Hollinger and Dietmar Diesner, Futch (with Thomas Lehn and Jon Rose), Ken Vandermark Territory Band and the Peter Brötzmann Tentet.

Henry Diltz

Among the bands Diltz played with were the Modern Folk Quartet (later Quintet), who included Chip Douglas, Jerry Yester and Cyrus Faryar, released two albums in 1963/64 and were later produced by Phil Spector.

Henschel Quartet

2008 concert première of Max Bruch’s string quintet in Eb (composed in 1918) at the Wigmore Hall in London.

Introducing Kenny Garrett

A measure of the strong reputation Garrett already had is that his sidemen include trumpeter Woody Shaw and pianist Mulgrew Miller; bassist Nat Reeves and drummer Tony Reedus complete the quintet.

Jarmo Savolainen

Jarmo Savolainen Quartet & Quintet: True Image (1995; with Dave Liebman and Sonny Heinilä (sax), Tim Hagans (trumpet), Ron McClure (bass), and Billy Hart (drums))

Jason Reolon

The Restless Natives is a contemporary quintet, consisting of Kesivan Naidoo on Drums, Jason Reolon on Piano, Chris Engel on alto and baritone Saxophone, Shane Cooper on Double Bass and Lee Thomson on trumpet and flugelhorn.

John Parricelli

He has worked with Annie Whitehead, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, Lee Konitz, Paul Motian, Tim Whitehead, Chris Laurence, Eddie Parker, Peter Erskine, Vince Mendoza, Mark Lockheart, Julian Argüelles, Iain Ballamy's Acme, Mark Lockheart Quartet, Andy Sheppard, Gerard Presencer, Colin Towns, Martin Speake Quintet, and Jazz singer Stacey Kent among others.

Joseph Genualdi

With pianist Jean-Philippe Collard, the Muir Quartet (with Genualdi as first violin) won the Grand Prix du Disque for their recording of the César Franck piano quintet.

Julio Medaglia

He wrote his "Belle Epoque en Sud-America", a Suite for Wind Quintet for the Bläserquintett of the Berlin Philharmonic, who have recorded the work and play it on tour.

Le tombeau de Couperin

Also in 2013, Trevor P. Wagler re-arranged the orchestral version down to a quintet and was played at Wilfrid Laurier University, in four movements: Prelude, Forlane, Menuet and Rigaudon.

Margareta Bengtson

Margareta Bengtson (born 1966) (formerly Margareta Jalkéus, having married and divorced Anders Jalkeus) is the former soprano of The Real Group, a professional a cappella vocal jazz quintet from Sweden.

Men of Vizion

Men of Vizion is an American R&B quintet that came to fame in 1996, with the debut album, Personal, which featured the songs "Housekeeper" and "Do Thangz", produced by Teddy Riley and "Lil" Chris Smith.

Michel Herr

He led several bands, from the trio to the big band, a.o. a European quintet with Wolfgang Engstfeld (sax) and Bert Joris (tp), a nonet named "Life Lines", etc..

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup

In 1879 the English composer Edward Elgar wrote an early musical work, part of his Harmony Music for a wind quintet, which he titled Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup.

Night Ark

Homecoming was also the theme for the successful satirical Israeli television series 'Hahamishia Hakamerit' ("The Chamber Quintet").

Norma Fisher

She performs frequently with the International Chamber Ensemble of Rome, Carmina Quartet and Reykjavik Wind Quintet and has partnered such well known soloists as Stephanie Gonley, Alan Hacker, Maurice Hasson, Emanuel Hurwitz, Ralph Kirshbaum, Steven Isserlis, Peter Lukas Graf, Gyorgy Pauk, Hu Kun, Sylvia Rosenberg, Grigori Zhislin, Yossi Zivoni and singers Benjamin Luxon, Sherrill Milnes and Nelly Miricioiu.

Patrick van Deurzen

Deurzen also often adds text that the musicians should recite to add a different level of meaning to the composition, as in his quintet Choral, Prelude & Fugue(2005) where each part contains texts of Don Quixote.

Peter Josyph

As a writer of fiction, his ongoing projects are a series of novels and short stories in which the narrator is French painter Henri Matisse, and the Haiku Quintet, a series of semi-autobiographical haiku novels written entirely in verses of 17 syllables.

Philharmonia Quartet

Its 1945 Columbia Records 78rpm recording of the Mozart clarinet quintet with Reginald Kell (the earlier of Kell's versions) was highly praised.

Planet Patrol

The members were Arthur Baker, John Robie, and a quintet of vocalists led by Herbert J. Jackson: lead singer Joseph Lites, Rodney Butler, Michael Anthony Jones, and the late Melvin Franklin.

Quatuor Arpeggione

In 2005, Margaret Fingerhut played César Franck's passionate Piano Quintet with the quatuor at the Conway Hall in London.

Radius Ensemble

For the 2008-2009 season guest artists include Robin Young (of radio station WBUR) as narrator for the Holocaust-inspired There is wind and there are ashes in the wind by Osvaldo Golijov, Robert D. Levin on piano for the Mozart Quintet in E-flat major for piano and winds, K.452, Marcus Thompson on viola for the Brahms String quintet in F, Op. 88, and Fenwick Smith on flute for Shulamit Ran's Mirage for Five Players.

Rotary Wind Quintet

The Rotary Quintet was composed in September 1997 on a commission from Henrik Rolf Hanstein, President of the Rotary Club of Cologne-Römerturm, on the occasion of the club's 25th anniversary.

Six of the Best

The classic quintet featuring Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford (whose birthday was on the day of the concert), Tony Banks, Steve Hackett and Phil Collins became a quartet during the period 1975-1977, helped by an invited drummer on tours (Bill Bruford (ex-Yes and ex-King Crimson) and then Chester Thompson, who became the touring drummer for the band until 1992 and in 2007).

Sonny Rollins Plus 4

The Quintet was in Chicago as well in November 1955, and were playing at the Bee Hive Club in Hyde Park.

Stratton Quartet

In March 1935 with Raymond Jeremy they gave the first performance of the Arnold Bax String Quintet in one movement.

Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen

In addition to composing music for his quintet, he has made pieces for string quintet and percussion as accompaniment to fairy tales by H. C. Andersen (2005), background music for Marguerite Duras' "The Lover" (2005), and was the main composer and bandleader for the jazz quintet Lobster (2002–08).

Trout Quintet

The quintet was written for Sylvester Paumgartner, of Steyr in Upper Austria, a wealthy music patron and amateur cellist, who also suggested that Schubert include a set of variations on the Lied.

Wizard of the Vibes

The sessions were the work of The Thelonious Monk Quintet (the July 2, 1948 and July 23, 1951 sessions) and The Modern Jazz Quartet plus Lou Donaldson (a 1952 session).


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