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Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is an influential Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. They are renowned as a major influence in popular music, and for pioneering the electropop music genre. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards).
The band was originally conceived as a one-off studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians - the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its cutting-edge production) was very popular, and the studio...
Electric Light Orchestra were a symphonic rock band which formed in Birmingham, England in 1970. The band was formed by Jeff Lynne (vocals, guitar, multiple instruments), Roy Wood (multiple instruments, vocals), Richard Tandy (keyboards, vocals) and Bev Bevan (drums). Lynne, Wood and Bevan were former members of the psychedelic rock band The Move. The band's lineup would fluctuate throughout its original incarnation, although Lynne, Tandy and Bevan would remain constant members.
They incorporated the sounds of string ensembles, vocoders and dub echos into rock songs, thereby creating a very sophisticated studio version of rock. The musical content of ELO songs...
Fragmentorchestra is the pairing of Italian jazz aficionados Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. The result is a beautiful and up-tempo album of moods and grooves for some autumnal bliss. For Luca and Giulio, Jazz also means improvisation, which Luca Pernici explains. "A musician, in the moment at which improvisation occurs, is irrationally set free from any approach, creating a philosophy of composition without any given time or place". The goal is just this, to preserve an improvised approach through breaking down beats and notes but still achieving the variety of an orchestra or better yet, a Fragment Orchestra...
Luca Pernici...
Brian Setzer (born April 10, 1959 in New York) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose popular big band orchestra is most appreciated commercially for their swinging take on Christmas holiday classics.
Early in his career Setzer was a member of the NYC band Bloodless Pharaohs, and later fronted the popular rockabilly revival band, Stray Cats. The Stray Cats particularly caught America's attention with the 1982 album Built for Speed, which included the two Top Ten hits, "Rock This Town" (#9) and "Stray Cat Strut" (#3), as well as with the follow-up 1983 album Rant 'N Rave, which included...
Minnie The Moocher
Twee-Twee-Tweet
Do It Again
Bugle Blues
Trylon Swing
Penguin Swing
I See A Million People (But All I Can See Is You)
Sunset
Summertime
Jonah Joins The Cab
St James Infirmary (best version)
Minnie The Moocher
The Jumpin' Jive
I'll Be Around
St. James Infirmary
A Minor Breakdown
B3. Ain't That Something
It Ain't Necessarily So
Stormy Weather
I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You)
St. James Infirmary
Minnie The Moocher
Ratamacue
(I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You
Hot Dog
It Ain't Necessarily So (from »Porgy And Bess«)
Stormy Weather
The Hi De Ho Man (That's Me)
Blues In The Night
Hep Cats Love Song
Trylon Swing
Unchained Melody
Rooming House Boogie
Shot Gun Boogie
Boog It
Special Delivery
Trylon Swing
Stormy Weather
Minnie The Moocher
One For My Baby
Trylon Swing
A Bee Gezindt
The Jumpin' Jive (Hep-Hep!)
La Mucura
Get With It
Special Delivery
Do It Again
Jealous
Boog It
Dinah