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Brian Torff, the Glossary

Brian Q. Torff (born March 16, 1954) is an American jazz double-bassist, songwriter and composer.^[1]

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An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé

An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé is a live album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing.

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Audiophile Records

Audiophile Records is a record company and label founded in 1947 by Ewing Dunbar Nunn to produce recordings of Dixieland jazz.

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Benny Goodman

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

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Bernard Purdie

Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician.

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Birdland (New York jazz club)

Birdland is a jazz club started in New York City on December 15, 1949.

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Blues Alley Jazz

Blues Alley Jazz is a 1980 live album by the pianist George Shearing, accompanied by the double bassist Brian Torff.

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Robert Alan Mintzer (born January 27, 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. Brian Torff and Bob Mintzer are American jazz composers and American male jazz composers.

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Boston Pops

The Boston Pops is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in light classical and popular music.

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Carlyle Hotel

The Carlyle Hotel, known formally as The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, is a combination luxury apartment hotel located at 35 East 76th Street on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and East 76th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Cleo Laine

Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth (born Clementine Dinah Hitching; 28 October 1927) is an English singer and actress known for her scat singing.

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Concord Records

Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Dave Grusin

Robert David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. Brian Torff and Dave Grusin are American jazz composers.

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Dave Samuels

David Alan Samuels (October 9, 1948 – April 22, 2019) was an American vibraphone and marimba player who spent many years with the contemporary jazz group Spyro Gyra.

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Double bass

The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).

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Dumpy Mama

Dumpy Mama is an album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, featuring performances recorded in 1975 for the Flying Dutchman label.

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Erroll Garner

Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. Brian Torff and Erroll Garner are American jazz composers and American male jazz composers.

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Fairfield, Connecticut

Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Flying Dutchman Records

Flying Dutchman Records was an American jazz record label, which was owned by music industry executive, producer and songwriter Bob Thiele.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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George Shearing

Sir George Albert Shearing (13 August 191914 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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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman (יִצְחָק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.

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Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist.

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Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California.

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Marian McPartland

Margaret Marian McPartland OBE (Turner;Hasson, Claire,. PhD Thesis. Retrieved 12 August 2008. 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English–American jazz pianist, composer, and writer.

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Mark O'Connor

Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical.

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Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. Brian Torff and Mary Lou Williams are American jazz composers.

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Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed "the Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. Brian Torff and Mel Tormé are American jazz composers and American male jazz composers.

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References

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

Also known as Brian Q. Torff, Torff, Brian.

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