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Don Sebesky

Giant Box (CTI: 40th Anniversary Ed)

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2 Song To A Seagull  
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Three-time Grammy Award winner Don Sebesky's Giant Box (1973) was a 1974 Grammy nominee in two categories Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band and Best Instrumental Arrangement (for the album's opening track "Firebird/Birds of Fire"). This ambitious project, originally a two-LP box set, showcases a who's-who of CTI greats Airto, George Benson, Billy Cobham, Paul Desmond, Joe Farrell, Freddie Hubbard, Milt Jackson, Hubert Laws and Grover Washington, Jr.

CTI records was a huge family in the 70's, frequently bringing mainstays such as Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, George Benson, and Milt Jackson together into the studio for jammin'. Don Sebesky, whose eclectic career has ranged from the jazz and funk of the 70's to arranging for up-and-coming R&B singers of recent years, was a behind-the-scenes man for CTI, similar to Sammy Nestico's role with the Count Basie band. In 1973, Sebesky finally got his own record session and a chance to bring all of his musical minions together to make some magic happen.

  • 'He wanted everyone in.' John Pizzarelli remembers arranger Don Sebesky / 88.3WBGO
    Posted At: May 8, 2023 12:00 AM
    Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli has been hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” Established as one of the prime contemporary interpreters of the Great American Songbook, Pizzarelli has expanded that repertoire by including the music of Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Antônio Carlos Jobim and the Beatles. In addition to...
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  • Creed Taylor, legendary producer who guided and expanded jazz, dead at 93 / NPR
    Posted At: August 25, 2022 12:00 AM
    NPR's JAMES GAVIN writes…..From 1953 through the '90s the record producer Creed Taylor, who died Monday at the age of 93, brought a regal touch to jazz, showcasing its players like aristocrats. Employed at the Verve label in the '60s, Taylor backed pianist Bill Evans with a symphony orchestra; he took bossa nova, a music created by the Rio de Janeiro elite, and gave it to the world. He packaged his artists'...
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  • udiscovermusic. picks 20 of the best music arrangers over the past century. Artists you've heard but not seen
    Posted At: January 25, 2020 12:00 AM

    You may not know they exist, but the best music arrangers can lift a song to new heights, making all the difference to whether it's a hit or not. Any musical composition can be reconceptualised – Franz Liszt arranged his own works for piano and transformed Bach's organ music – and the best music arrangers in jazz, pop and rock have become world famous. (Quincy Jones and Nelson Riddle are just...
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  • Don Sebesky's Giant Box of Groove
    Posted At: August 20, 2012 2:24 PM

    Three-time Grammy Award winner Don Sebesky's Giant Box was a 1974 Grammy nominee in two categories Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band and Best Instrumental Arrangement. This ambitious project, originally a two-LP box set, showcases a who's-who of CTI greats. The 70's are long gone - but you can always relive the decade's eclectic blend of funk, grooves, abstract jazz harmonies, and ...
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