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AmateurBigBand

Midnight Blue Jazz Society is a 17-piece big band based in Calgary, Alberta, performing music ranging from classic 1940s swing and jazz standards to blues, Latin, funk, and modern big band arrangements. The band performs regularly at public concerts, festivals, fundraisers, corporate events, and private functions, and has appeared across Canada and internationally, including performances on Vancouver Island, in the Northwest Territories, and in Cuba. Midnight Blue Jazz Society is a registered not-for-profit organization focused on musical excellence, community engagement, and providing performance opportunities in a supportive, educational environment.

ProfessionalBigBand

The NRO played its first season back in 1985 led by bandleader, Nick Ross and have been touring audiences across the UK and beyond ever since. This 16-piece big band features some of the finest musicians in the UK along with guest singers which have included Sam Merrick, Georgina Jackson & Matthew Ford. With records released in 2008 (My Favourite Things) and 2011 (Jeepers Creepers) respectively, the NRO have recently released their third album, 'Sounds of the Glenn Miller Era' (2020), recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London featuring vocalist, Sam Merrick. Recapture the sounds and memories of a bygone era as the Nick Ross Orchestra present an unmissable evening of music and song, the classic Big Band Sound of the Glenn Miller Era. With a line-up of saxophones, trumpets, trombones, a rhythm section and singers, the Nick Ross Orchestra faithfully recreate the Big Band sound of the '40s & '50s. The NRO Library features hits from Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Ted Heath, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Les Brown, Benny Goodman, Ray Noble, and Stan Kenton among others.... and our repertoire would not be complete without reference to the songbook of Frank Sinatra.

SemiProfBigBand

In the 30s they were called 'Jazz Orchestras', one and a half decades later, 'Big Bands', and today, again, they are often called Jazz Orchestras. Something similar happened to us: In December, 1995, we started out as the 'Uni Big Band' and played the first season undder that name in 1996. Under the direction of Wolfgang Pemberger, we have been maintaining, for twenty years, a broad songbook of classic swing, Frank Sinatra songs (with Christian Dietz, vocals), Argentine rhythms with bandoneon, and funk. We play at Lindy Hop events, festivals, on concert stages, and can be booked for private events. A Big Band - or jazz orchestra - is composed of five saxophones, four trombones, four or five trumpets, and a rhythm section (drums, bass, piano, sometimes guitar). Occasionally, the band features guest musicians. Our musicians are either employees or students of all disciplines of the University of Bern, and all are jazz enthusiasts.

SemiProfBigBand

Øernes Jazz Ensemble is the new big band on Lolland-Falster in Denmark since 2024. Our repertoire is swing and much more, and we have rotating conductors. We are project-oriented, and in 2025 we had trombonist Jiggs Whigham as instructor and soloist for a series of concerts.

SemiProfBigBand

On Cue is a big band from Stockholm that plays dance music. The orchestra is a full-size big band consisting of 17 musicians, two singers and a bandleader. We play all kinds of music, from jazz, pop, disco, soul, funk, Latin, swing to waltz. We are confident in being able to plan a dance evening that suits your audience at your event. The orchestra has sometimes been described as a cover band - but in a big band format. On Cue has purposefully developed a broad repertoire to be able to give the dance enthusiast everything they could want, from all styles for both old and young. The band appears mainly at larger balls and official occasions, for example at academic graduations and formal parties, at the City Hall, balls at various castles, order halls and party venues, but we also provide musical entertainment at parties, anniversaries, balls, corporate events, concerts and as a backing band for various artists. On Cue has played for the dance at the Nobel Prize party three times.