When was the winner of the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance in 1961 born?
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The Blues and the Beat The Blues and the Beat is an album by Henry Mancini that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance in 1961.
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Henry Mancini Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.
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George Coleman George Edward Coleman (born March 8, 1935) is an American jazz saxophonist known for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s. In 2015, he was named an NEA Jazz Master.
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Mike Bogle Mike Bogle (James Michael Bogle; born 1961) is an American trombonist, pianist, vocalist, composer, and arranger. He attended the University of North Texas (BM Jazz Studies 1987, MM 1989) where he was a member of the world-renowned One O'Clock Lab Band.
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Nancy Wilson (jazz singer) Nancy Wilson (born February 20, 1937) is an American singer with more than seventy albums, and three Grammy Awards. She has been labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop and soul, a "consummate actress", and "the complete entertainer". The title she prefers, however, is "song stylist". She has received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice".
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Orbert Davis Orbert C. Davis (born 1960) is an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
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Ray Gelato Ray Keith Irwin (born 25 October 1961), and known professionally as Ray Gelato, is a British jazz, swing and jump blues saxophonist, singer and bandleader. He is known as one of the major forces in the revival of swing music. Gelato has performed in a private capacity for Richard Branson, Paul McCartney and the Queen amongst others.
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Oliver Nelson Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He is perhaps best remembered for his groundbreaking 1961 Impulse! album "The Blues and the Abstract Truth", widely regarded as one of the most significant recordings of the modern jazz era. The centerpiece of the album is the definitive version of Nelson's composition, "Stolen Moments". Other important recordings from the early 1960s are "More Blues and the Abstract Truth" and "Sound Pieces", both also on Impulse!.
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Bruce Bromberg Bruce Bromberg (born October 31, 1941) is an American Grammy Award winning producer of blues music.
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Anton Nel Anton Nel (born December 29, 1961) is an American classical pianist.
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Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of . His "Broadway Blues" has become a standard and has been cited as a key work in the free jazz movement. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. His album "Sound Grammar" received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
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Les McCann Leslie Coleman McCann (born September 23, 1935) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist
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Jon Metzger Jon Metzger (born July 30, 1959) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, author, and educator.
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Lewis Porter Lewis Porter, PhD "(né" Lewis Robert Porter; born 1951) is an American jazz pianist, musicologist, educator, and author.
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Madeline Eastman Madeline Louise Eastman (born June 27, 1954), is an American jazz singer.
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Genius + Soul = Jazz Genius + Soul = Jazz is a 1961 album by Ray Charles featuring big band arrangements by Quincy Jones and Ralph Burns. Charles is accompanied by two groups drawn from members of The Count Basie Band and from the ranks of top New York session players. It was recorded at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio in two sessions on December 26 and 27, 1960 and originally released on the Impulse! label as Impulse! A–2.
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Michael Davis (trombonist) Michael Davis (born August 13, 1961 in San Francisco, California) is a jazz trombonist from San Jose, California.
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Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard is an album by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2009.
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Wynton Marsalis Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and his "Blood on the Fields" was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the son of jazz musician Ellis Marsalis, Jr. (pianist), grandson of Ellis Marsalis, Sr., and brother of Branford (saxophonist), Delfeayo (trombonist), and Jason (drummer). Marsalis performed the national anthem at Super Bowl XX in 1986.
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Dewey Redman Walter Dewey Redman (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006) was an American jazz saxophonist, known for performing free jazz as a bandleader, and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett.
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Michael Brecker Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music in 2004, and was inducted into the "Down Beat" Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Gary McFarland Gary McFarland (October 23, 1933 – November 3, 1971) was an influential composer, arranger, vibraphonist and vocalist, prominent on Verve and Impulse! Records during the 1960s, when he made "one of the more significant contributors to orchestral jazz".