bandleader
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The Connecticut festival Westville Music Bowl on Wednesday published a statement from the composer-singer-multi-instrumentalist and former “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” bandleader announcing that he has canceled “a portion of my upcoming performance dates.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
A guitarist, composer and bandleader who died on Saturday, Taylor's six-decade career played a key role in shaping modern popular music in West Africa.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
This domestic sitcom, starring Lucille Ball as a frustrated housewife and Ball’s then-husband Desi Arnaz as her patient bandleader husband, is the most influential show in TV history, and it isn’t close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
The jazz bandleader Duke Ellington claimed to be “crazy about baseball” and recalled working as a vendor at Washington Senators’ games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
The bandleader had told him if he learned to blow right away he could march in the band the very next Saturday.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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