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The Great American Music Ensemble (GAME), established in 1986, is a professional jazz orchestra dedicated to spirited musical performances of outstanding compositions and arrangements drawn from the entire scope of jazz history. Its repertoire ranges GAME appeared for seven years in an annual concert series at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where it received consistently strong critical praise. The Ensemble has also appeared in concerts for the National Symphonys Pops Concerts Series, the Smithsonian Institution, the International Association of Jazz Educators Annual Convention, the Duke Ellington Societys Annual Convention, and at many universities. In 1990, GAME was featured on National Public Radios prize-winning radio documentary Louis Armstrong: The First 90 Years. The individuals who comprise GAME are among the finest practi-tioners of their craft in the Washington, D.C./ Virginia area. As individuals they have performed and/or recorded with many of the worlds leading jazz and pop artists, including Tony Bennett, Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, and Bruce Hornsby. GAME members are also on the faculties of Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, the University of Richmond, the Armed Forces School of Music, Old Dominion University, and North Carolina Central University. (Wed., May 19, 7:30 p.m.) |
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from the earliest masterworks of Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver through the Swing Eras Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, the Bop Periods Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius Monk, and comtemporary masters Thad Jones, Frank Foster, and Gil Evans. The Ensemble also focuses on great American songs by such masters as George Gershwin, Richard Rogers and Cole Porter, arranged by its Music Director and founder 
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