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Public Jazz Lounge

2.1M streams

2,120,296

True Italian Stories

400.3K streams

400,340

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Roma

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Penny Blue

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Hampton: Jazz Matinee

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Biography

The SWR Big Band is a leading force of the genre. The band has been nominated several times for a Grammy Award as Best Large Ensemble, most recently in 2022 for the Charlie Parker tribute album Bird Lives with Magnus Lindgren and John Beasley. Beasley therefor won a Grammy for Best Arrangement (Scrapple From The Apple). A great honour in 2011, when it was the first German band ever suggested for the “Prêmio da Música Brasileira”, Brazil’s most important music award with "Bossarenova" with Paula Morelenbaum and Filo Machado. Since 2018 Swedish composer/arranger/woodwind player Magnus Lindgren is Artist in Residence and refining the sound of the band, including projects with Nils Landgren & Jan Lundgren, Martin Tingvall, Hugo Candelario and more. SWR Big Band worked with Quincy Jones, George Benson, Chris Potter, Pat Metheny, Joe Lovano, Paul Carrack, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Tia Fuller, Jacob Collier, Ivan Lins, Max Mutzke, Maria Schneider, Zaz or Sammy Nestico. Homepage: www.swrbigband.de Contact: swrbigband@swr.de Imprint: www.swr.de/impressum/index.html