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CBS Orchestra

The CBS Orchestra is the house band

House band

A house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play an establishment. It is widely used to refer both to the bands who work on entertainment programs on television or radio, and to bands which are the regular performers at a nightclub, especially jazz and R&B clubs....
that plays for David Letterman

David Letterman

David Michael Letterman is an United States comedian, known for hosting the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS since 1993. Letterman's Irony, often Surreal humour comedy is heavily influenced by former The Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and Jack Paar....
's CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
late-night talk show

Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show talk show host....
, Late Show with David Letterman
Late Show with David Letterman

The Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night television talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and is produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated....
. The CBS Orchestra was previously known as The World's Most Dangerous Band during the group's tenure as the house band for NBC's Late Night with David Letterman
Late Night with David Letterman

Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 in television and went off the air in 1993 in television, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show with David Letterman on CBS....
from 1982 to 1993. The group was forced to rename itself when NBC claimed that their assumed name of The World's Most Dangerous Band was part of its intellectual property

Intellectual property

Intellectual property are law property over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, discoveries and inventions; and words, phra...
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des being the house band for the Late Show, the group has also been the house band for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the are...
induction ceremonies since 1986.

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The CBS Orchestra is the house band

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Talk show

Intellectual property

Paul Shaffer
Paul Shaffer

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, Order of Canada is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer currently the bandleader and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman....
on keyboards
Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave....
(August 1993-present)
Anton Fig
Anton Fig

Anton Fig , known as "The Thunder from Down Under" is a session musician drummer, noted for his work in David Letterman's house band, the CBS Orchestra....
on drums
Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
and percussion (August 1993-present)
Felicia Collins
Felicia Collins

Felicia Michele Collins is an United States vocalist, guitarist and occasional percussionist, best known for her work on the CBS Television program, The Late Show with David Letterman, as part of the CBS Orchestra....
on guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
and vocals
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
(August 1993-present)
Sid McGinnis
Sid McGinnis

Sid McGinnis is an United States musician and guitarist, best known for his work on the CBS Television show, The Late Show with David Letterman, as part of the CBS Orchestra....
on guitar (August 1993-present)
Will Lee
Will Lee (bassist)

Will Lee is an United States musician and bassist, best known for his work on the CBS Television program The Late Show with David Letterman as part of the CBS Orchestra....
on bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
and vocals (August 1993-present)
Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell

George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an United States Keyboard instrument and composer best known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic and Talking Heads....
on synthesizer
Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequency....
s (August 1993-November 1993)
Tom Malone
Tom Malone (musician)

Tom "Bones" Malone, born June 16, 1947, is an American jazz musician. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone, but also plays trumpet, tuba, tenor sax, baritone sax, flutes, piccolo, and other instruments....
on trombone
Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
(November 1993-present)
Al Cheznovitz
Al Cheznovitz

Al Chesnovitz, also Alan Chez is an American musician who principally plays the trumpet and the flugelhorn on the CBS Orchestra for the Late Show with David Letterman....
on trumpet
Trumpet

The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
/flugelhorn
Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical Bore . Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the keyed bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus predating Adolphe Sax's innovative work....
(November 1993-present)
Bruce Kapler
Bruce Kapler

Bruce Kapler is a musician for the CBS Orchestra on the Late Show with David Letterman....
on saxophone
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
(November 1993-present)

The World's Most Dangerous Band

Paul Shaffer on keyboards (1982-1993)
Will Lee on bass guitar and vocals (1982-1993)
Steve Jordan
Steve Jordan (musician)

File:??????? ??????? ??????? ?????.jpgSteve Jordan is an United States multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and music producer from New York City....
on drums and percussion (1982-1986)
Hiram Bullock
Hiram Bullock

Hiram Law Bullock was an United States jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.He was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S....
on guitar (1982-1984)
Sid McGinnis on guitar (1984-1993)
Anton Fig on drums and percussion (1986-1993)

Beyond the Late Show

Besides being the house band for the Late Show, the group has also been the house band for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
, In 2001, they also served as the backup band for the The Concert for New York City
The Concert for New York City

The Concert for New York City was a benefit concert, featuring many famous musicians, that took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden in New York City in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks....
where they performed with David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
and Keith Richards

Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
, Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
and Buddy Guy

Buddy Guy

George "Buddy" Guy is a five-time Grammy Award-winning United States blues and rock music guitarist and singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other guitarists, Guy is considered an important exponent of Chicago blues....
, Macy Gray

Macy Gray

Macy Gray is an American contemporary R&B and soul music singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor, famed for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis as well as Keith Harris as Orville the Duck....
, and James Taylor

James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
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Discography

1989: Coast to Coast (Capitol Records
Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood, California and New York City as part of Capitol Music Group....
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1993: The World's Most Dangerous Party (SBK Records
SBK Records

SBK Records was a record label started in the late 1980s.Stephen Swid, Select Records' Jevon Tompkins, Martin Bandier, and Charles Koppelman formed the production company SBK in 1989 after they purchased the music publishing division of CBS Records in 1986....
, Capitol Records)