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Roger Ingram (born November 13, 1957) is a world renowned jazz and popular music lead trumpet player, educator, and author. He is best known for being the lead trumpet player on the Harry Connick, Jr.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
, and Woody Herman

Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman , better known as Woody Herman, was an United States jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band band leader....
big bands, and his 2008 trumpet textbook, Clinical Notes on Trumpet Playing.
r O'Neal Ingram was born November 13, 1957 in St. Luke's Hospital in Pasadena, California

Pasadena, California

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
, and Woody Herman

Woody Herman

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Roger O'Neal Ingram was born November 13, 1957 in St. Luke's Hospital in Pasadena, California

Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl Game American football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,...
, the youngest of three children born to Hazel Ruth Ingram and Walter Edward (Ed) Ingram. His mother, Hazel, was born in Lamar, Arkansas December 20, 1923 and his father, Ed, (August 28, 1903 - March 8, 1992) was born at Niagara Falls, New York.

Roger's mother ran the household and worked as a tailor and dressmaker from their home; his father was a free-lance artist, actor, and musician. Both were instrumental in Roger's development. .

Roger's father was multi-talented; in addition to being an artist (he worked on the early Popeye cartoons, and several early Disney animations, including "Fantasia,") he had his own radio show in Los Angeles in the 1930's where he sang and played ukulele. During the 1940's and 50's he worked in Hollywood as a singer and actor; he was in more than 30 movies, and can be seen in several classics, including The Joker's Wild, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Superman, This Island Earth, and Titanic. During Roger's childhood, Ed supported the family as a commercial artist. He developed the concept and wrote the pilot for "24 On / 24 Off" which became the popular tv show Emergency!

Emergency!

Emergency! is a television series, combining the medical drama and action-adventure genres, that was produced by Mark VII Limited and distributed by Universal Studios....
Edward loved music in general and jazz in particular; he played many instruments including saxophone and harmonica. He encouraged Roger's interest in music by bringing him to hear the jazz greats of the day, including Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
, Harry James

Harry James

Harry James was an United States musician and band leader, and a well-known trumpet virtuoso. James was one of the most outstanding instrumentalists of the swing era, employing a bravura playing style that made his trumpet work instantly identifiable....
, Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
, Count Basie

Count Basie

Al Hirt

Alois Maxwell Hirt was an United States trumpeter and bandleader.Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a police officer, and was known as "Al" or "Jumbo." At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop....
, Buddy Rich

Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an United States Jazz drumming, bandleader and former Marine. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuoso technique, power, and speed....
, Barney Bigard

Barney Bigard

Albany Leon Bigard, aka Barney Bigard, was an United States jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, though primarily known for the clarinet....
, Jack Teagarden

Jack Teagarden

Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden , known as "Big T", was an influential jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist....
, Kid Ory

Kid Ory

Edward "Kid" Ory was a jazz trombone and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in Southeast Louisiana....
, Woody Herman

Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman , better known as Woody Herman, was an United States jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band band leader....
, Rafael Mendez

Rafael Méndez

Rafael M?ndez was a popular Mexican virtuoso solo trumpeter.As a young child in his native Mexico, Mendez was the cornetist for Pancho Villa....
, and Teddy Buckner

Teddy Buckner

Teddy Buckner was a jazz trumpeter associated with Dixieland music.Early in his career Buckner played with Sonny Clay. He worked with Buck Clayton in Shanghai in 1934 and later worked with Benny Carter among others....
. His father gave Roger his first trumpet and mouthpiece in 1965; the horn is a bare brass trumpet made in American-occupied post-war Japan, the bell is stamped "Koondr, Kailangan Tokyo."

Roger began playing the trumpet at eight. Growing up in Los Angeles, he became acquainted with some of the finest Hollywood trumpet players of the time. Many of these introductions came through John Rinaldo, his band director at Eagle Rock High School. Mr. Rinaldo spearheaded a very fertile and successful high school jazz program. Besides Roger, Mr Rinaldo's jazz program produced such great musicians as drummers Carlos Vega and Sam Wiley, bassists Scott Colley

Scott Colley

Scott Colley is an American jazz double bass.Colley studied jazz and classical composition at the California Institute for the Arts, graduating in 1988....
and David Stone, guitarist Larry Koonse, saxophonists Doug Rinaldo, Brian Mitchell, and Gary Hypes, trombonists Arturo Velasco and Luis Bonilla

Luis Bonilla

Luis Bonilla is an Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin jazz trombonist born in Los Angeles, California.In 1985 he joined the Gerald Wilson orchestra, whom he would go on to record with....
, pianist Guy Steiner, and trumpeters Bobby Muzingo and Buddy Gordon. Through Mr. Rinaldo, Roger was able to meet and study with Bobby Shew

Bobby Shew

Bobby Shew is a renowned jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player....
and Laroon Holt. Other teachers Roger studied with include Bud Brisbois

Bud Brisbois

Austin Dean "Bud" Brisbois was a jazz and studio trumpet player. He played all styles, including big band lead, jazz soloing, Pop music, rock , Country music, Motown, and european classical music, but it was his high-note playing that set him apart....
, Mannie Klein

Manny Klein

Manny Klein was a jazz trumpeter most associated with Swing music.He began with Paul Whiteman in 1928 and was active throughout the 1930s playing with several major bands of the era including the Dorseys and Benny Goodman....
, Roy Stevens

Roy Stevens

Roy Stevens , an American trumpet player, Stevens-Costello System brass embouchure teacher, and author of the Embouchure Self-Analysis: Stevens-Costello Triple C Embouchure Technique with Bill Moriarity....
, Bobby Findley, Carmine Caruso, Reynold Schilke, James Stamp

James Stamp

James Stamp was an United States professional musician....
, Uan Rasey, Mel Broils, and Dan Jacobs.

At only sixteen, Roger toured with the great Louie Bellson

Louie Bellson

Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni , better known by the stage name Louie Bellson , was an Italian-American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the Double bass drumming....
Big Band, sharing section duties with Blue Mitchell

Blue Mitchell

Richard Allen Mitchell was an United States jazz, rhythm and blues, Soul music, rock music, and funk trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman on Blue Note Records....
, Bobby Shew

Bobby Shew

Bobby Shew is a renowned jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player....
, Cat Anderson and Frank Szabo. His first big international gigs were with that esteemed group during the Belvedere King Size Jazz Festival Tour at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, the Winnipeg Arena in Winnipeg, and the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada. After his stint with Bellson, Ingram graduated high school and then joined the Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
Big Band for a fall tour. Immediately following that tour, at seventeen, Roger spent a year touring with the Connie Stevens

Connie Stevens

Connie Stevens is an United States Actor and singer....
show, playing lead trumpet for the first time with a popular music act.

At eighteen, Roger played first trumpet with the international pop star Tom Jones

Tom Jones

Tom Jones may refer to:*Sir Tom Jones , Welsh pop music singer*Tom Jones , lyricist of musical theater*Tom Jones , Australian politician representing Collie-Wellington district...
, and remained with him for six years. After that, he moved to Las Vegas, where for two years he gained invaluable experience playing production shows and star acts on the world renowned Las Vegas Strip.

In 1985, Roger joined the famous Woody Herman

Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman , better known as Woody Herman, was an United States jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band band leader....
Orchestra as lead trumpet. Roger's friend, Ron Stout, held the jazz chair at that time, and was instrumental in getting Roger onto the band. Roger remained with "The Herd" until Herman's death in 1987. He recorded three Grammy nominated albums with the legendary band leader: The 50th Anniversary Tour, Woody's Gold Star, and The Concord Years. Roger's tenure with Herman's Thundering Herd was a vital developmental period, as he matured into one of the world's preeminent lead trumpet players. Roger is the last lead trumpeter to play with the true Woody Herman Orchestra.

Roger returned to his hometown of Los Angeles after Woody's death, founding and co-leading his own big band with the late saxophonist Steve Elliott. The Ingram-Elliott big band featured talented artists such as Bobby Shew

Bobby Shew

Bobby Shew is a renowned jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player....
, Till Brönner, Bill Watrous

Bill Watrous

William Russell Watrous III is a professional jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known by casual fans of Jazz for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love," which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name....
, and Gary Foster. In 1988, Roger worked with the famous WDR Jazz Orchestra in Cologne, Germany. While in Germany, Ingram recorded works by Bob Brookmeyer

Bob Brookmeyer

Robert Brookmeyer is an United States jazz valve trombonist, Jazz piano, and musical arranger.Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained widespread public attention as a member of Gerry Mulligan's quartet from 1954 to 1957....
and Jim McNeeley, featuring Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis was a drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents. His birth name was Melvin Sokoloff....
on drums. During this time, he recorded with saxophonist Loren Schoenberg

Loren Schoenberg

Loren Schoenberg is a jazz historian, writer of liner notes, and tenor saxophone. He began playing tenor saxophone in 1974 and by the late 1970s he was playing professionally Benny Goodman....
and pianist/composer Django Bates

Django Bates

Django Bates is a composer, virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn....
.

Later that year, Roger joined the orchestra of one of his trumpet inspirations, Maynard Ferguson, and recorded three albums with the high note legend. In October 2004, Roger performed as a featured artist at Stratospheric, a four day festival honoring Maynard. In September 2006, Roger performed as a featured soloist at The Maynard Ferguson Tribute Concert in St. Louis, Missouri along with many other world class trumpet players, including his long-time friend and colleague Wayne Bergeron

Wayne Bergeron

Wayne Bergeron is a jazz, session musician/lead trumpet playerWayne Bergeron is one of the most highly sought studio trumpet players on the Los Angeles music scene today....
. After a total of three years as Maynard's lead trumpeter, Roger moved to Florida, where he was a teaching assistant and private instructor at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. While in Miami, he collaborated with his friend and colleague, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in Havana Province, Cuba.Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz legends Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally meeting Dizzy later in 1977....
, recording the Grammy Award

Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
winning album, Danzon. He also did a variety of commercial recording work, performed and toured with the New Xavier Cugat

Xavier Cugat

Xavier Cugat, born Francesc d'As?s Xavier Cugat Mingall de Bru i Deulofeu was a Spanish people-Cuban peoplen-United States bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba....
Orchestra, and worked on a consistent basis with the Peter Graves Orchestra.

In 1990, Roger joined the newly formed big band of singer, pianist, composer, and arranger, Harry Connick, Jr.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. is an American Popular Music/Performers, pianist, composer, actor, and humanitarian. Connick?s music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues....
Roger recorded three albums with Harry, working with him until the orchestra disbanded in 1993. The following year, Roger toured with vocal legend Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
. Later in 1994, Roger moved to New York City, joining Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is an United States trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in European classical music....
and his Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Roger recorded three albums with Marsalis, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning, Blood on the Fields

Blood on the Fields

Blood on the Fields is a three and half hour jazz "oratorio," although he did not use this term, by Wynton Marsalis. It was commissioned by Lincoln Center and concerns a couple moving from slavery to freedom....
.

Roger left Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1997 to tour and record with the legendary Ray Charles

Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
for two years. After touring with singer-songwriter Paul Anka

Paul Anka

Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
, Roger joined the re-formed Harry Connick, Jr. big band in 1998 and recorded the Grammy nominated album, Come by Me

Come by Me

Come By Me is a big band album by United States artist Harry Connick Jr., released in 1999, eight years after his previous big band recording, Blue Light, Red Light....
. In April 2000, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave that album a Gold Record certification. In the summer of 2001, Roger did a brief stint touring and playing lead trumpet with the Count Basie

Count Basie

William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
Orchestra, returning to tour with Harry Connick, Jr., in November. Among the 18 albums and DVDs that Roger has recorded with Harry Connick, Jr., his most noteworthy performances are on Blue Light, Red Light

Blue Light, Red Light

Blue Light, Red Light, a big band album by United States artist Harry Connick Jr., released in 1991. The multi-platinum album features Connick's Singing and piano, accompanied by his 14-piece big band....
, When My Heart Finds Christmas

When My Heart Finds Christmas

When My Heart Finds Christmas is United States artist Harry Connick, Jr.'s first Christmas album, released in 1993 and is among the most popular holiday collections of the past and current decade in the USA....
, the Grammy-winning Songs I Heard

Songs I Heard

Songs I Heard is an album by Harry Connick, Jr , with his take on songs from movies he remembers watching as a child. The album features tunes from Annie , The Sound of Music , Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Mary Poppins , and The Wizard of Oz ....
, Harry for the Holidays

Harry for the Holidays

Harry for the Holidays is United States artist Harry Connick, Jr.'s second Christmas album, released in 2003. The album features Connick and his 16 piece Big Band and a full String instrument....
, Thou Shalt Not

Thou Shalt Not (musical)

Thou Shalt Not is a musical theatre based on ?mile Zola's novel Th?r?se Raquin with music and lyrics by Harry Connick, Jr. and an adapted book by David Thompson ....
, Chanson du Vieux Carre, Oh My NOLA, and What a Night

What a Night

What a Night can refer to:*What a Night! A Christmas Album , album by Harry Connick, Jr.**"What a Night", song on the album What a Night! A Christmas Album...
. Today, Roger continues to tour with and work on all of Connick's big band projects.

While living in New York, Roger performed in a freelance capacity in more than 20 Broadway productions including Chicago

Chicago (musical)

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....
, Grease

Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
, Cats, Les Miserables, Play On, and The Producers

The Producers (musical)

The Producers is a comedy-Musical theater adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' The Producers , with lyrics by Brooks and music by Brooks and Glen Kelly....
. In addition, Roger played trumpet for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre and he was the principal trumpet player in the broadway shows and cast albums of Thou Shalt Not

Thou Shalt Not

Thou Shalt Not is the initial phrase of most of the Ten Commandments; ten rules of religious morals supposedly the religious figure Moses received from the Abrahamic deity God and is part of the Jewish holy book, Tanakah and is part of Christianity's holy book in the Old Testament....
, The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Pike Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross ....
, and Harry on Broadway, Act 1.

From the start of Roger's career, he performed at jazz festivals around the world: the Monterey Jazz Festival

Monterey Jazz Festival

The Monterey Jazz Festival is one of the longest consecutively running jazz festivals. It debuting on October 3, 1958 and was founded the by San Francisco jazz radio broadcaster James L....
, The Concord Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland, It is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva....
, Nice, Newport, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, often known as Jazz Fest, is an annual celebration of the music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana....
, The Montreal Jazz Festival, and The Rimpelrock Festival. He has made appearances at multiple LA Jazz Institute festivals, the Midwest Band Clinic, the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), the Charles Colin Brass Conference, and the International Trumpet Guild

International Trumpet Guild

The International Trumpet Guild is a group of about 6000 trumpet players from around the world. Four journals are sent out every year to all members along with occasional instructional and practice items ....
Conference.

Since 2005, Roger has been an Artist in Residence

Artist in residence

Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities allow visiting artists to stay and work 'for art's sake'.These programs offer conditions that are conducive to creativity and they provide for working facilities, ready to be used by individual artists....
of the Music Conservatory at the Chicago College of Performing Arts

Chicago College of Performing Arts

Chicago College of Performing Arts is a performing arts college that is housed at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. The college has two divisions: The_Music_Conservatory_of_Chicago_College_of_Performing_Arts and The Theatre Conservatory....
at Roosevelt University. After 4 years of monthly commuting from New York, he moved to La Grange, Illinois in 2008. In addition to teaching, concertizing, and conducting clinics and master classes throughout the world, his busy schedule includes touring and recording with Harry Connick, Jr.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Paul Anka

Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
, the Woody Herman Alumni Orchestra, and subbing with the Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
orchestra.

In August 2008, Roger Ingram's trumpet textbook, "Clinical Notes on Trumpet Playing" was first published. Roger's description/goal of the book is in his introduction. "The strategies and exercises discussed in this book are my interpretation and the result of information I've absorbed during my life about music and trumpet playing. This book is also an explanation of how I've taken these concepts (and my own discoveries) and made them work for me. It is my hope that through your application of the data contained within this book you can do the same for yourself, as ultimately, you are your best teacher."

The book was immediately embraced by trumpet players and music educators around the world: it has been sold in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and The Netherlands, and has been included on the recommended or required reading lists for music programs of universities and conservatories worldwide. As of December 2008 it is in the 6th printing.

Roger is one of the most sought after and prolific lead trumpet players of our time. Well known for his dynamic sound and upper register, and feel for swing, Roger's musical legacy is embodied by his respect and regard for artistic integrity. Roger is considered by Harry Connick, Jr., as well as many others, to be the finest lead trumpet player in the world. His definitive voice and performance mastery undoubtedly place him among the lineage of great lead trumpeters in the history of jazz music.

Honors

Lead trumpet on 2 Grammy
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
winning recordings: Songs I Heard (Harry Connick, Jr.) and Danzon (Arturo Sandoval)
Lead trumpet on 4 Grammy nominated recordings: Come By Me (Harry Connick, Jr.), 50th Anniversary Tour, Woody's Gold Star, and The Concord Years (Woody Herman)
Lead trumpet on the Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
winning recording, Blood on the Fields (Wynton Marsalis)
Lead trumpet on the Broadway musical, Thou Shalt Not
Thou Shalt Not (musical)

Thou Shalt Not is a musical theatre based on ?mile Zola's novel Th?r?se Raquin with music and lyrics by Harry Connick, Jr. and an adapted book by David Thompson ....
- 2 Nominations 2002 Tony Awards
Lead trumpet on the Broadway musical, The Pajama Game
The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Pike Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross ....
- 9 Nominations and 2 Winners 2006 Tony Awards

Sideman

In a freelance/sideman

Sideman

A sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or record with a musical band of which he is not a regular member. Sidemen are generally required to be adaptable to many different music genre of music, and so able to fit smoothly into the group in which they are currently playing....
or session musician

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental performers or vocalists who are available for hire for live performances or recording sessions, as opposed to musicians who are either permanent members of a musical ensemble or who have acquired fame in their own right as bandleaders....
capacity, the many artists Roger has performed with include the following: Pepper Adams

Pepper Adams

Pepper Adams , was a jazz baritone saxophonist, who is widely considered one of the most significant and influential baritone saxophonists in jazz....
, Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko Akiyoshi

is a Japanese American Jazz piano, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition....
, Jay and the Americans

Jay and the Americans

Jay and the Americans were a pop music group popular in the 1960s. Their initial lineup consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howard Kane , Kenny Vance and Sandy Deanne , though their greatest success on the Billboard magazine came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by Jay Black....
, Frankie Avalon

Frankie Avalon

Frankie Avalon is an United States actor, Singing, Sex_Symbol, and former teen idol....
, Pearl Bailey

Pearl Bailey

Pearl Mae Bailey was an American singer and actress. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway theatre debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946....
, Tex Beneke

Tex Beneke

Tex Beneke was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader, who is probably remembered best for his association -- and best-selling hit records -- with Glenn Miller's popular big band from 1938 to 1942....
, Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
, Bob Brookmeyer

Bob Brookmeyer

Les Brown

Les Brown may refer to:*Les Brown , U.S. Big Band leader, or his son, Les Brown Jr., leader since 2001*Les Brown , American author...
, George Burns

George Burns

George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
, Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader.Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s....
, Conte Candoli

Conte Candoli

Secondo "Conte" Candoli was an United States jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast of the US. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson....
, Pete Candoli

Pete Candoli

Pete Candoli was an United States swing music and West Coast jazz trumpeter. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, and many others, and worked extensively in the studios of the recording and television industries....
, Jack Carter

Jack Carter

Jack Carter may refer to:*Jack Carter , eldest son of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter*Jack Carter , American standup comedian*Jack Carter , character on the science fiction drama Eureka...
, Ron Carter

Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an United States jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar....
, Joe Castro

Joe Castro

Joe Castro is an American Film director whose movies are Budget, or B movies.Castro is mainly bent on Splatter film flicks, Horror film, and twisted films....
, Doc Cheatham

Doc Cheatham

Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, much better known as Doc Cheatham was a jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. While a reliable player in some of the top jazz groups from the 1920s on, Cheatham's career enjoyed an unusual flowering of renewed creativity and acclaim in his later decades; Doc himself agreed with the critical assessment that...
, Cher

Cher

Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
, Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
, Al Cohn

Al Cohn

Al Cohn was an United States jazz saxophonist and arranger/composer....
, Natalie Cole

Natalie Cole

Natalie Maria Cole is an influential United States singer-songwriter and performer who has won ten Grammy Awards. She achieved success in her early career as an R&B star, but smoothly changed her repertoire toward a more jazz orientated musical style in the early 1990s....
, Buddy DeFranco

Buddy DeFranco

Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco is a jazz clarinet player.DeFranco began his professional career just as Swing Music and Big Bands — many of which were led by clarinetists like Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman — were fading in popularity....
, Dom DeLuise

Dom DeLuise

Dominick "Dom" DeLuise is a Golden Globe- nominated United States actor, comedian, film director, television producer, and chef. He is the husband of actress Carol Arthur, and the father of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise, and actors David DeLuise and Michael DeLuise....
, Harry Sweets Edison, Bill Evans

Bill Evans

William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
, Fabian

Fabian

Fabian is a masculine given name. It may refer to:...
, Jon Faddis

Jon Faddis

Jon Faddis , is an United States jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education....
, Joe Farrell

Joe Farrell

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, Jose Feliciano

José Feliciano

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, Eddie Fisher

Eddie Fisher

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, The Four Freshmen

The Four Freshmen

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, The Four Lads

The Four Lads

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, The Four Tops, Connie Francis

Connie Francis

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, Annette Funicello

Annette Funicello

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, Jackie Gayle, Herb Geller

Herb Geller

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, Stan Getz

Stan Getz

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, Terry Gibbs

Terry Gibbs

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, Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

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, Edie Gorme, Jimmy Heath

Jimmy Heath

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, Joey Heatherton

Joey Heatherton

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, The New Horace Heidt

Horace Heidt

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Orchestra, Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson

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, Bill Holman, Lena Horne

Lena Horne

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, Milt Jackson

Milt Jackson

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, JJ Johnson, Jack Jones

Jack Jones

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, Frankie Lane

Frankie Lane

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, Steve Lawrence

Steve Lawrence

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, Jay Leno

Jay Leno

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, John Lewis

John Lewis

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, Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis

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, Rich Little

Rich Little

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, Gloria Loring

Gloria Loring

Gloria Loring is an United States singer and actor.She began her music career at age 14, singing with a folk group known as Those Four. She went on to perform on a wide range of shows in the 70's, from The Carol Burnett Show to the Academy Awards ceremony....
, Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
, Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione

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, Shelly Manne

Shelly Manne

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, Ann Margaret, Rose Marie

Rose Marie

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, Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
, Jim McNeely

Jim McNeely

Jim McNeely is a Grammy Award-nominated jazz composer, arrangement, and pianist.Jim was born in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a Bachelor of Music Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and moved to New York City in 1975....
, Carmen McRae

Carmen McRae

Carmen Mercedes McRae was an United States jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable....
, The Mills Brothers, The Modernaires

The Modernaires

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, Jack Montrose

Jack Montrose

Jack Montrose was a jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger. After attending university in Los Angeles he worked with Jerry Gray and then Art Pepper....
, The New Jack Morgan Orchestra, Gerry Mulligan

Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer and arrangement.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophone in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis,...
, Anne Murray

Anne Murray

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, Wayne Newton

Wayne Newton

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, Helen O'Connell

Helen O'Connell

Helen O'Connell was a singer, actress, and dancer.O'Connell joined the Jimmy Dorsey band in 1939 and achieved her best selling records in the early forties with "Green Eyes ", "Amapola ," "Tangerine " and "Yours_." In each of these Latin-influenced numbers, Bob Eberly crooned the song which Helen then reprised in an up-tempo arrangement....
, Anita O'Day

Anita O'Day

Anita O'Day was an United States jazz singer. Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said ?When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the only white woman that belongs in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.?...
, Chico O'Farrill, The O'Jays

The O'Jays

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, Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters

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, Bill Porter

Bill Porter

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, Don Rickles

Don Rickles

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, Nelson Riddle

Nelson Riddle

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Orchestra, Marcus Roberts

Marcus Roberts

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, Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers

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, Shorty Rogers

Shorty Rogers

Milton ?Shorty? Rogers , born Milton Rajonsky in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz. He played both the trumpet and flugelhorn, and was in demand for his skills as an Arrangement....
, Carl Saunders

Carl Saunders

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, Doc Severinsen

Doc Severinsen

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, Bud Shank

Bud Shank

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, Avril Shaw, Jack Sheldon

Jack Sheldon

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, Bobby Shew

Bobby Shew

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, The Silvers, Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Frank Sinatra, Jr.

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, Zoot Sims

Zoot Sims

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, Suzanne Sommers, Ira Sullivan

Ira Sullivan

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, Donna Summer

Donna Summer

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, The Temptations

The Temptations

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, Toni Tennille

Toni Tennille

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, Clark Terry

Clark Terry

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, The Tonight Show Orchestra, Jerry Vale

Jerry Vale

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, Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli

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, Sarah Vaughn, Slappy White

Slappy White

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, Margaret Whiting

Margaret Whiting

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, Joe Williams

Joe Williams

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, John Williams

John Williams

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, Al Wilson

Al Wilson

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, Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson

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, Nancy Wilson

Nancy Wilson

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, Phil Woods

Phil Woods

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Discography

Conducting in the Stan Kenton Style (Klavier Two Records), Al Yankee
To Ella With Love (Shanachie), Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Hampton Callaway

Ann Hampton Callaway is a multiplatinum-selling singer, composer, lyricist, pianist, and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the theme to the TV series The Nanny , writing songs for Barbra Streisand and starring in the Broadway musical Swing!....
Danzon (Dance On) (Milan Records), Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in Havana Province, Cuba.Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz legends Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally meeting Dizzy later in 1977....
The Best of Arturo Sandoval (Milan Records), Arturo Sandoval
The Very Best of Arturo Sandoval (GRP), Arturo Sandoval
Hommage (Jazzed Media), Bill Holman
Bill Holman (musician)

Willis Leonard Holman , known also as Bill Holman, is an United States songwriter, conducting, composer/arranger, and saxophonist working primarily in the jazz idiom....
Band
The Best of Bill Medley (M.C.A. Records), Bill Medley
Bill Medley

William Thomas "Bill" Medley is an United States singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers singing duet ....
The Sound:A Tribute to Stan Getz, Billy Ross
Live at Fitzgeralds (Big Head), Brienn Perry and the Woody Herman
Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman , better known as Woody Herman, was an United States jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band band leader....
Orchestra
Heart Of A Legend (Milestone Records), Chico O'Farrill
Home of My Heart (Origin Records), Chris Walden
I Was Born in Love with You (Blue Note), Denise Jannah
Denise Jannah

Denise Jannah, real name: Denise Johanna Zeefuik - Netherlands Suriname-born jazz singer, first Dutch jazz soloist to be signed by the Blue Note Records recording label....
Dangerous Precedent (Sea Breeze Jazz), Frank Mantooth
Frank Mantooth

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Sophisticated Lady (Sea Breeze Jazz), Frank Mantooth
Swing Time (Sony import), Harry Connick, Jr.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. is an American Popular Music/Performers, pianist, composer, actor, and humanitarian. Connick?s music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues....
What a Night! A Christmas Album
What a Night! A Christmas Album

What a Night! A Christmas Album, by United States singer, pianist and bandleader Harry Connick, Jr., is scheduled for release in Winter 2008....
(Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Blue Light, Red Light
Blue Light, Red Light

Blue Light, Red Light, a big band album by United States artist Harry Connick Jr., released in 1991. The multi-platinum album features Connick's Singing and piano, accompanied by his 14-piece big band....
(Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Chanson du Vieux Carré (Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Come By Me
Come by Me

Come By Me is a big band album by United States artist Harry Connick Jr., released in 1999, eight years after his previous big band recording, Blue Light, Red Light....
(Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Forever For Now (Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
France, I Wish You Love (Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Harry For the Holidays
Harry for the Holidays

Harry for the Holidays is United States artist Harry Connick, Jr.'s second Christmas album, released in 2003. The album features Connick and his 16 piece Big Band and a full String instrument....
(Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Harry on Broadway Act. 1 (Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Oh My NOLA (Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Only You
Only You (Harry Connick Jr)

Only You is Harry Connick Jr.'s 17th album from Columbia Records, released in February 2004 consisting of versions of songs from the 1920s to the 1960s....
(Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Songs I Heard
Songs I Heard

Songs I Heard is an album by Harry Connick, Jr , with his take on songs from movies he remembers watching as a child. The album features tunes from Annie , The Sound of Music , Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Mary Poppins , and The Wizard of Oz ....
(Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
Thou Shalt Not
Thou Shalt Not (musical)

Thou Shalt Not is a musical theatre based on ?mile Zola's novel Th?r?se Raquin with music and lyrics by Harry Connick, Jr. and an adapted book by David Thompson ....
(Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
When My Heart Finds Christmas
When My Heart Finds Christmas

When My Heart Finds Christmas is United States artist Harry Connick, Jr.'s first Christmas album, released in 1993 and is among the most popular holiday collections of the past and current decade in the USA....
(Sony), Harry Connick, Jr.
All These People
All These People

"All These People" is the first single from Harry Connick, Jr.'s 2007 album Oh my NOLA, and the single was released on itunes on August 29, 2006....
(Sony), Harry Connick, Jr. and Kim Burrell
Kim Burrell

Kimberly Burrell Wiley is an United States Gospel music singer from Houston, TX. She calls her musical style jazz gospel. Though she is comparatively new to the gospel music industry, having only debuted in 1995, she has quickly become one of the most influential voices in the genre, often named as "this generation's Ella Fitzgerald."...
Lip Trip (Mean Bugle), Jim Manley
Slender, Tender and Tall (Panda Digital), Jo Thompson
Big Bop Nouveau (Intima Records), Maynard Ferguson
Footpath Café (Avion Records), Maynard Ferguson
Live from London (Avenue Records), Maynard Ferguson
Live... and Swinging (PANKA Records), Paul Anka
The Spirit of Christmas (C.B.S. / Sony), Ray Charles
The Kush:Music of Dizzy Gillespie (Heads Up), Richie Cole
Richie Cole (musician)

Not to be confused with the footballer Richie Cole or the Led Zeppelin tour manager Richard Cole.Richie Cole is a jazz alto saxophonist born in Trenton, New Jersey, United States and is a graduate of Ewing High School, Ewing New Jersey....
The Minute Game (Summit), Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra West
Please Send Me Someone to Love (Stanson Records), Sonny Craver With The Pat Longo Big Band
Live at Newport and at the Hollywood Bowl, July 1986, (Jazz Band Records), Stan Getz
Stan Getz

Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
Taking the Long Way Home (Jazzed Media), The Bud Shank
Bud Shank

Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. is an United States alto saxophone and flautist. He played flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, on various recording sessions including The Zodiac : Cosmic Sounds, and occasionally in live performances until he gave it up later in his career to focus exclusively on the alto saxophon...
Big Band
The Baecker Jazz Worship Service (John Cooper Music), The John Cooper Jazz Orchestra
Robots
Robots (film)

Robots is a 2005 in film United States CGI-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox , and was released theatrically on March 11 2005 ....
, 20th Century Fox
Now That's What I Call Christmas!
Now That's What I Call Christmas!

Now That's What I Call Christmas! was released on October 23, 2001. The album is part of the Now That's What I Call Music! series, and the first holiday-themed album in the series....
(Utv Records), Various Artists
Simply Mad About the Mouse
Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination

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(Sony), Various Artists (including Harry Connick, Jr.)
The Concord Years (Concord Records), Woody Herman
Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman , better known as Woody Herman, was an United States jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band band leader....
and his Big Band
Woody's Gold Star (Concord Records), Woody Herman and his Big Band
50th Anniversary Tour (Concord Records), Woody Herman's Band
Ebony (R.C.A. Records - Red Label), Woody Herman's Thundering Herd
Blood on the Fields
Blood on the Fields

Blood on the Fields is a three and half hour jazz "oratorio," although he did not use this term, by Wynton Marsalis. It was commissioned by Lincoln Center and concerns a couple moving from slavery to freedom....
(Sony), Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is an United States trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in European classical music....
Reeltime (Sony), Wynton Marsalis
Sweet Release and Ghost Story (Sony), Wynton Marsalis
They Came To Swing, Jazz at Lincoln Center (Sony), Wynton Marsalis

Filmography

2007 All These People
All These People

"All These People" is the first single from Harry Connick, Jr.'s 2007 album Oh my NOLA, and the single was released on itunes on August 29, 2006....
, Columbia (music video - soundtrack recording) - Harry Connick Jr.
2005 Robots
Robots (film)

Robots is a 2005 in film United States CGI-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox , and was released theatrically on March 11 2005 ....
, 20th Century Fox (Film - soundtrack recording)
2005 The Happy Elf
The Happy Elf

The Happy Elf is a 3D-animated family holiday special, which first aired December 2, 2005 on the NBC television network in the USA. Based on Grammy-winner Harry Connick, Jr.?s original song, The Happy Elf ....
, Columbia (film, soundtrack recording) - Harry Connick Jr.
2004 Only You: In Concert, PBS - Harry Connick Jr.
2003 Harry for the Holidays, NBC - Harry Connick Jr.
2001 Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival, Sony (DVD) - Paul Anka
Paul Anka

Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
1999 Come By Me Columbia (Music Video - soundtrack recording) - Harry Connick Jr.
1999 Music My Way, Sony (DVD) - Paul Anka
1997 Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Pioneer, (DVD) - Ray Charles
Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
1994 Sleigh Ride, Columbia (Music Video - soundtrack recording) - Harry Connick Jr.
1994 The Harry Connick Jr. Christmas Special
When My Heart Finds Christmas

When My Heart Finds Christmas is United States artist Harry Connick, Jr.'s first Christmas album, released in 1993 and is among the most popular holiday collections of the past and current decade in the USA....
(video) - Harry Connick Jr.
1993 The Harry Connick Jr. Christmas Special
When My Heart Finds Christmas

When My Heart Finds Christmas is United States artist Harry Connick, Jr.'s first Christmas album, released in 1993 and is among the most popular holiday collections of the past and current decade in the USA....
, 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....
- Harry Connick Jr.
1993 The New York Big Band Concert, (Video) - Harry Connick Jr.
1992 You Didn't Know Me When, Columbia (Music Video - soundtrack recording, film appearance) - Harry Connick Jr.
1991 Blue Light, Red Light, Columbia (Music Video - soundtrack recording) - Harry Connick, Jr.
1990 Swinging Out Live
Swinging Out Live

Swinging Out Live is a live performance VHS with Harry Connick, Jr. and his orchestra. The concert was filmed in 1990 at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas, as part of his national tour....
, Sony(DVD) - Harry Connick, Jr.
1989 Cameron's Closet, Sony Pictures (soundtrack recording) released on DVD 2004
1981 Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas 1981, w/Tom Jones
Tom Jones

Tom Jones may refer to:*Sir Tom Jones , Welsh pop music singer*Tom Jones , lyricist of musical theater*Tom Jones , Australian politician representing Collie-Wellington district...
1980 Knott's Berry Farm
Knott's Berry Farm

Knott's Berry Farm is a brand name of two separate entities in the United States: a theme park in Buena Park, California, and a manufacturer of food specialty products based in Placentia, California....
, (TV special) w/Tom Jones
1978 Burt Sugarman's Midnight Special
Midnight Special

Midnight Special may refer to:*"Midnight Special ," a song popularized by Lead Belly*Midnight Special , a 1962 album by Harry Belafonte*The Midnight Special, a passenger train formerly operated by the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad...
9 Dvd Collector's Set, w/Tom Jones
1977 Fire Sale (Film)
Fire Sale (film)

Fire Sale is a 1977 in film comedy film starring Alan Arkin as Ezra Fikus; Rob Reiner as his brother Russel; Vincent Gardenia as their father Benny; Sid Caesar as Benny's brother Sherman; Anjanette Comer as Marion ; and Kay Medford as Ruth ....
, Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin

Alan Wolf Arkin is an American Academy Award-winning actor, Film director, and musician. He is best-known for starring in such films as: Catch-22 ; The In-Laws ; Edward Scissorhands; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; Glengarry Glen Ross ; and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award fo...
(movie extra)
1977 The Choir Boys, (Film) - Robert Aldrich
Robert Aldrich

Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and Film producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , The Flight of the Phoenix, Hush? Hush, Sweet Charlotte and The Dirty Dozen....
(movie extra)
1976 Edmonton "In Concert" Series - ITV, w/Connie Stevens

Roger Ingram

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