* Orchestra Baobab

Orchestra Baobab

The Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab plays in a basic salsa style with congas and timbales, but with the addition of Wolof and Mandinka instruments and lyrics.

* Inside Out: Trey and Dave Go to Africa ( 2004, Documentary based in Senegal, Africa featuring Dave Matthews and Orchestra Baobab )

For the 46th Grammy Awards ( 2004 ), Best Contemporary World Music Album nominees included Cesária Évora for Voz d ' Amor, Bill Frisell for The Intercontinentals, Youssou N ' Dour for Nothing's in Vain ( Coono du Reer ), Orchestra Baobab for Specialist in All Styles, and Caetano Veloso for Live in Bahia.

He financed an album by Etoile De Dakar, featuring Youssou N ' Dour and Orchestra Baobab.

Apart from that, he performed with other artists like Aladji Faye, Tilahun Gessesse, Youssou Ndour, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, Bob Mose, Lester Bowie, David Schnitter, Polo Orti, Aster Aweke, Rainer Bruninghaus, Jakob Magnusson, Jon Eberson, Stefan Nilsson, Anders Kjellberg, Zakir Hussein, Ivo Papasoff, Ran Diallo, Ismaila Sané, Finn Siegler, Baluji Shrivastav, Charlie Mariano, Thad Jones, Gunter Christmann, Paquito d ' Rivera, Ted Curson, Walter Bishop Jr., Herbie Hanckock's Head Hunters, Marian Petrescu, Zoltan Lantos, Mihail Petrescu, Kornel Horvath, Borbely Mihaly, Wladislaw Jagiello, Wojeck Tschaikowsky, Hamid Drake, Bill Öhrström, Coste Apetrea, Bruno Råberg, Richie Cole, Raivo Tafenau, Hüsnü Şenlendirici, Ergun Senlenderici, Jimi Mbaye, Yamar Thiam, Orchestra Baobab, No. 1 de Dakar, Super Diamono de Dakar, Ethio Stars, Assane Thiam, Eric M ' backe-N ' doye, Alla Seck, Ali Birra, Mike Rose, Antonio Coronel, Pepe Roca, Alameda, Juan Carlos Romero and numerous Finnish musicians.

Orchestra Baobab is a Senegalese Afro-Cuban, Son, Wolof and Pachanga band.

So when the Baobab Club opened in Dakar in 1970, six players, led by saxophonist Baro N ' Diaye, were lured from Star Band and the Orchestra Baobab were born.

Orchestra Baobab recorded 20 vinyl albums ( mostly released as cassette tapes ) between 1970 and 1985.

But competition from Mbalax, a new funk inspired sound in the mid 1980s, overwhelmed Orchestra Baobab.

The popularity of Orchestra Baobab began to decrease during the late 1980s due to the popularization of mbalax, the percussive street style popularised by Youssou N ' Dour.

During that same year Orchestra Baobab re-release their 1989 album Pirates Choice as a double CD with 6 extra rare tracks and completed a world tour including Europe and America.

Since then Orchestra Baobab has released two records.

In 2002 Orchestra Baobab released Specialist in All Styles which was produced by Senegalese superstar Youssou N ' dour with guest appearances by Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer and N ' dour himself.

Ibrahim Ferrer was not an accidental choice: not only had Orchestra Baobab written a song lauding this grand figure of Cuban music ( Hommage a Tonton Ferrer ), but Ferrer's huge burst of international fame with the Buena Vista Social Club in the 1990s mirrors the resurrection of Baobab.

The two visited Senegal and performed with Orchestra Baobab during the program.

Orchestra Baobab performed at Live 8 in Johannesburg, a series of concerts to end poverty.

In October 2007 Orchestra Baobab released the album Made in Dakar on World Circuit Records, leading commentators to claim that Baobab had reclaimed their place as pioneers of African Pop.

After being separated for 15 years Orchestra Baobab reunited in 2001.

In winning the Best African Artists award Orchestra Baobab beat the African musicians Kasse Mady Diabate and Tony Allen.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

The orchestra gained its first international recognition during Silvestri's tenure, such as in a joint performance with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in the Winter Gardens by the combined string sections of both orchestras, playing Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro.

Lea, who also played the piano and guitar, had been in the Staffordshire Youth Orchestra and had gained first class honours in a London music-school practical exam.

Barbe was also a former professional singer, meeting her husband while touring with the Buddy Morrow Orchestra, and gained a bit of notoriety in later years appearing in commercials and on television shows based on her recognition as the “ Time Lady .” As a result of her extensive work, she was an early member and a Board member of the Atlanta branch of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Because of this friendship, he gained the support to found two years later the Russian National Orchestra in 1990, the first non-government-supported orchestra in Russia since 1917 ; Pletnev was its first principal conductor .< ref >" Mikhail Pletnev.

He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including " Miami Vice Theme " and " Crockett's Theme ", from the popular 1980s program, Miami Vice.

The Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1863 and gained a permanent home at Garnier Palace in 1879.

Kenny Garrett ( born October 9, 1960 ) is a Grammy Award-winning American post bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained fame in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band.

The Music Academy gained national attention in June 2002 when the Disney Channel premiered the reality TV show Totally in Tune, which chronicled members of the Academy's Symphony Orchestra.

He changed his name from Tsutomu Yamashita to the phonetic Stomu Yamashta and in 1969 gained worldwide recognition during a concert with Seiji Ozawa and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Similarly, Asian origin has become unremarkable, because of the international successes of conductors from the Far East such as Seiji Ozawa, who was the Boston Symphony Orchestra's music director from 1973 until 2002 after holding similar posts in San Francisco and Toronto, and Myung-Whun Chung, who has held major posts in Germany and France and now is bringing the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra to international attention.

A video of a rehearsal with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has also been issued and it depicts the two key elements of his conducting style-a fastidious attention to detail and an infectious sense of rhythm and vibrancy.

He has recently received a lot of attention for his " Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra ", premiered in Chicago in October 2006, with a European premiere in Dvorak Hall, Prague, Czech Republic.

On a 1995 tour to Japan, the Hangovers received attention by donating half of their tour profits to the Kobe Earthquake Relief Fund ; on a subsequent tour to Japan and Korea in the spring of 1998, they performed on Inter-FM, a Western-music radio station, in addition to other performances at such venues as the Tokyo-American Club, the United States naval base in Atsugi, Seoul National University, Ewha University and concluded the tour at the Seoul National Arts Center as a guest group for the Seoul National Orchestra.

After completing his education at the middle school of the Beşiktaş Military Academy, he was admitted into the Musical Academy of the Ottoman Imperial Orchestra in 1891 at the age of 11, where he quickly garnered the attention of his instructors as well as that of Sultan Abdulhamit II with his talent, who soon placed him under the instruction of Chief Violinist Vondra Bey and d ’ Aradna Pasha.

His best known works are arrangements and variations on spirituals ; his Negro Folk Symphony of 1934 garnered a great deal of attention at its world premiere, under the direction of Leopold Stokowski with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

To underscore its commitment to increasing the attention given to women in all disciplines, NMWA commissioned Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich to write Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra inspired by five paintings from the permanent collection, for an opening concert.

While attending the academy, she came to the attention of André Rieu who hired her as a vocalist with his Johann Strauss Orchestra.

Her debut album with André Previn and London Symphony Orchestra, which coupled Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos, brought her international attention.

The 1951 Festival of Britain brought the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra ( TAPSO ) and Roaring Lion to public attention.

His first composition to attract wide attention was Prayer for Peace, premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra ( 1981 ), garnering him the distinction of being the youngest composer since Samuel Barber to be premiered by that orchestra ; the New York Philharmonic commissioned Philharmonia for its 150th anniversary ( 1990 ); the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Music commissioned Concerto for Brass Quintet for its 100th anniversary ( 1995 ); the Curtis Institute commissioned Much Ado for its 75th anniversary ( 2000 ).