Fattoruso has been a longtime part of both the Uruguayan and Latin American music scene, including as a member of rock band Los Shakers, and swing band The Hot Blowers, as well as Brazilian Milton Nascimento and the Latin jazz and Acid Jazz group Opa.

Dorus became a Grandpa ( Dutch: Opa ), at the age of 23 ( by marriage to a widow with eight children ), and soon everybody called him Opa.

Other probable Vettonian towns were Tamusia ( Villasviejas de Tamuja, near Botija – Caceres ; Celtiberian-type mint: Tamusiensi ), Ocelon / Ocelum ( Castelo Branco ), Cottaeobriga ( Almeida ) and Lancia ( Serra d ’ Opa ).

* Albert Mangelsdorff und das Jazzensemble des Hessischen Rundfunks: Die Opa Hirchleitner Story ; Brunswick EPB10815 ( EP ); Dusko Goykovich ( tp ), Emil Mangelsdorff ( as ), Joki Freund ( ts ), Pepsi Auer ( p ), Peter Trunk ( b ), Rudi Sehring ( dr ), Albert Mangelsdorff ( tb, gt ).

* Opa ( programming language ), a web development platform

* Alien ( band ), a 1980s Swedish rock group

* The Aliens ( Scottish band ), a 2005-present rock group

* The Aliens ( Australian band ), a 1970s new wave group

* Aberdeen ( band ), an American rock band

* Aberdeen City ( band ), Boston based indie / alternative rock band.

* Animal ( Muppet ), a drummer character in The Muppet Show band, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem

* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

The band has been mentioned or featured in various newspapers and magazines: the Vancouver Sun, Northshore News ( Vancouver, Canada newspaper ), New Times ( Los Angeles weekly entertainment newspaper ), BLU Magazine ( underground hip hop magazine ), BAM Magazine ( Southern California ), La Banda Elastica Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Calendar section.

* Atomic ( band ), a Norwegian jazz quintet

* Abducted ( album ), an album by death metal band Hypocrisy

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

* Adrian Sieber ( born 1972 ), Swiss singer and the lead singer in the Swiss Britpop band Lovebugs

* Adrian Smith ( born 1957 ), English musician and one of three guitarists / songwriters in the English band Iron Maiden

* Adrian Utley ( born 1957 ), English musician best known as a member of the band Portishead

* Adrian Young ( born 1969 ), American drummer for the rock band No Doubt

* Ajax ( band ), an electronic band from New York City

* A-Jax ( band ), a South Korean boy band

Uruguayan band El Cuarteto de Nos wrote the song " Me Amo " ( I Love Myself ) in which the chorus sings " como Narciso soy " ( I am like Narcissus ).

* Uruguayan — Pasquet, Luis ( emigrated to Finland 1974 ): ‘’ Triangle of Love ’’ ( n. d .; # 1: “ Pierrot ”; piano and brass band ).

Rock and roll first broke into Uruguayan audiences with the arrival of British band The Beatles in the early 1960s.

Uruguayan punkabilly band Rudos Wild recorded the song for their album " Psychos With Wax!

* Tótem, an Uruguayan band formed in the early 1970s

El Peyote Asesino is an Uruguayan hip-hop and hard rock band that was active from 1994 to 1999.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

It became more common to arrange sketchy jazz combo compositions for big band after the bop era.

* Affinity ( Philippines band ), a collective of Manila's premier jazz musicians

With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.

Performed by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts, a band Kanno assembled to perform music for the series, the jazz and blues themed soundtrack helps to define the show as much as the characters, writing, and animation.

Within the realm of popular music and jazz, " drums " usually refers to a drum kit or a set of drums ( with some cymbals ) and " drummer " to the actual band member or person who plays them.

The encyclopedia of big band, lounge, classic jazz and space-age sounds "

* 1978 – Don Ellis, American jazz band leader ( b. 1934 )

Bluegrass and jazz players typically use less amplification than blues, psychobilly, or jam band players.

Beginning around 1890, the early New Orleans jazz ensemble ( which played a mixture of marches, ragtime, and Dixieland ) was initially a marching band with a tuba or sousaphone ( or occasionally bass saxophone ) supplying the bass line.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

In some cases, blues or rockabilly bassists may have obtained some initial training through the classical or jazz pedagogy systems ( e. g., youth orchestra or high school big band ).

* Elements ( band ), 1980s – 90s American jazz ensemble

Invented in 1931, the electric guitar became a necessity as jazz musicians sought to amplify their sound in the big band format.

" f the audience of 50 engineers had shut their eyes they would have believed the jazz band was in the same room.

Gaynor was a singer with the Soul Satisfiers, a jazz / pop band, in the 1960s.

* The Georgians ( Frank Guarente ), an American jazz and dance band of the 1920s

* The Georgians ( Nat Gonella ), a British jazz band of the 1930s

Parsons had been acquainted with Hillman since the pair had met in a bank during 1967 and in February 1968 he passed an audition for the band, being initially recruited as a jazz pianist but soon switching to rhythm guitar and vocals.

Connick's musical talents soon came to the fore when he started learning the keyboards at age three, playing publicly at age five, and recording with a local jazz band at ten.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.