In high school, a teenage Turner joined a huge local rhythm ensemble called The Tophatters, who played dances around Clarksdale, Mississippi.

In high school, a teenage Ike Turner joined a huge local rhythm ensemble called The Tophatters, who played dances around Clarksdale, Mississippi, playing big-band arrangements from sheet music.

Rivalry between the two former factions of the Tophatters lasted for some time, with the two staging an open air ' battle-of-the-bands ' where they played from atop two flatbed trucks every fortnight.

At one point, the Tophatters had over 30 members, and eventually split into two, with one act who wanted to carry on playing dance-band jazz calling themselves The Dukes of Swing and the other, led by Turner becoming the Kings of Rhythm.

At one point the Tophatters had over 30 members, and eventually split into two, with one act who wanted to carry on playing dance-band jazz calling themselves The Dukes of Swing and the other, led by Turner becoming the Kings of Rhythm.

The Strike Fighter Squadron 14 ( VFA-14 ) " Tophatters " are a United States Navy fighter attack squadron based at Naval Air Station Lemoore.

By the late 1960s, Anka's career centered around adult contemporary and big-band standards, played regularly in Las Vegas.

The family moved to California in 1945, and Ronka attended North Hollywood High School, where he played trombone in a dance-band workshop that studied music ranging from the big-band sound of the early 1930s to the progressive jazz of Stan Kenton.

Arnaz, Jr. played the drums and, supported by the SNL band, Desi sang both " Babalu " and another favorite from his dance band days, " Cuban Pete "; the arrangements were similar to the ones used on I Love Lucy.

The resulting arrangements can be played back using its internal sounds or external sound sources, or recorded in a computer-based sequencer.

Others such as Electric Light Orchestra played rock music with orchestral arrangements and / or orchestra backing.

These first two records were produced by John Simon, who was practically a group member: he aided in arrangements, and played occasional instruments ( piano or tuba ).

He would also fine or physically assault band-members if they played a wrong note and controlled everything from the arrangements down to the suits the band wore onstage.

This version of the band played in a more commercial manner, adding a saxophone to the arrangements in the manner of other popular orchestras.

Other incidental tracks, organ music played as The Jetsons score themes and arrangements mostly based on polka music, they were used in cartoons like The Magilla Gorilla Show and its segments.

Some big ensembles, like the Joe " King " Oliver outfit played a kind of half arranged, half improvised jazz, often relying on “ head ” arrangements.

Together with his brother Julius ( violin ) and sister Isabella ( piano ), Jacob played in a trio at local dance halls, inns and cafés, performing popular dance music and operatic arrangements.

Several days later, trustee William Foran wrote to NHA president Emmett Quinn that the trustees are " perfectly satisfied to allow the representatives of the three pro leagues ( NHA, PCHA and Maritime ) to make all arrangements each season as to the series of matches to be played for the Cup.

As the band began to experiment with theatrical sound effects and baroque musical arrangements ( Nicky Hopkins played harpsichord on several tracks ), Davies ' songwriting fully acquired its distinctive elements of narrative, observation and wry social commentary.

The arrangements starts with a Tutti of strings and trumpets ( in Verse A ) that represents a brave and an elegant sound, and in the middle of the song ( in Verse B ) is played smoothly by strings, and finally ( in Verse C ) comes another Tutti of strings and trumpets with beautiful contrapuntal background of cornos, and together with timpanis and cymbals make it a brave sound for a national anthem that respected by the people.

Rauber played a major role in providing Brel with the formal musical training he was lacking, and was responsible for Brel's musical arrangements.

He played the piano, keyboards and organ in both groups and co-wrote or did the arrangements for many of the bands ' hits.

He played his own arrangements of a few classical piano pieces as well, most famously Dvořák's Humoresque no.

Davidson chafed under the arrangements for the conference in which he had played no part and detirmined to write the final Encyclical himself.

Third Stage was played in sequence in its entirety during the shows, with expanded arrangements of some cuts.

She claims that John Hammond and Benny Goodman arranged to buy Henderson's arrangements as a way to support Henderson, and points out that Goodman always gave Henderson credit for the arrangements and said that the Henderson band played them better than the Goodman band.

Compositions and arrangements by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings continue to be played by " Traditional Jazz " or " Dixieland " bands all over the world today.

Between them they played a selection of mostly Harrison's songs, from both Beatle and post-Beatle eras, generally staying faithful to Harrison's original arrangements.

In 1929 and 1930 he played with Irving Aaronson's Commanders, where he was exposed to symphonic music, which he would later incorporate in his arrangements.

The back cover describes it as an " album of compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra played by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra ".

The album featured complex arrangements and textures, and opens with the two-minute track " Time Becomes ", consisting of nothing more than two slightly detuned, looped samples of a Michael Dorn line from Star Trek: The Next Generation, "... where time becomes a loop " being played simultaneously through the left and right channels, respectively ( until one cycle of phase difference has happened ).

A stringed orchestra played softly behind the potted palms, and Delphine circulated graciously among her guests, chatting airily of the forthcoming races, the latest fashions from Paris, and Louisiana politics.

To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

You'd never guess it from the way they've played so far this spring, but there remains a feeling among some around here that the Orioles still have a chance to battle for the pennant in 1961.

In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat.

Mr. Phillips had only to signal from his doorway to summon aid from the ubiquitous bilingual children who played on the sidewalks of Mission Street.

President Kennedy couldn't stay away from his desk for the 75-minute young people's concert played on the White House lawn yesterday by the 85-piece Transylvania Symphony Orchestra from Brevard, N. C..

He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993.

Azerbaijan is an economy that has completed its post-Soviet transition into a major oil based economy ( with the completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline ), from one where the state played the major role.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film El rincón de las vírgenes (" The Virgins ' Corner "), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood.

Spalding's. 796 career winning percentage ( from an era when teams played about once or twice a week ) is the highest ever achieved by a baseball pitcher.

Although there were low levels of preexisting antibiotic-resistant bacteria before the widespread use of antibiotics, evolutionary pressure from their use has played a role in the development of muiltidrug resistance varieties and the spread of resistance between bacterial species.

These alleged refugees claimed the ancestry of Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out some 15 centuries before the fall of Assyria ), they also contradictionally claimed ancestry from Nabopolassar, a Babylonian king of Chaldean extraction who played a major part in the destruction of the Assyrian Empire.

This was started by Roy Noble, who built the guitar played by Clarence White from 1968 to 1972, and was followed by Bill Collings, Marty Lanham, Dana Bourgeois, Randy Lucas, Lynn Dudenbostel and Wayne Henderson, a few of the luthiers building guitars today inspired by vintage Martins, the pre – World War II models in particular.

Only later was it given a different meaning, a process in which Augustine ( Bp of Hippo Regis, 395-430 ) played a part by emphasising the idea of " the link from consecrator to consecrated whereby the grace of order was handed on.

Although clubs from other states were at times invited, the final was almost always between the premiers from the two strongest state competitions of the time — South Australia and Victoria — and the majority of matches were played in Adelaide at the request of the SAFA / SAFL.

By the 1960s, as VFL clubs increasingly recruited the best players from other states, they began to dominate the competition and the last match was played in 1976, with North Adelaide being the last non-Victorian winner in 1972.

Celsius ' participation in the Lapland expedition won him much respect in Sweden with the government and his peers, and played a key role in generating interest from the Swedish authorities in donating the resources required to construct a new modern observatory in Uppsala.

To combat this, they included a digital signature protection method which prevented unauthorized 7800 games from being played on the system.

Robin Williams played the physician ; Robert De Niro was one of the patients who emerged from a catatonic ( frozen ) state.