A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music.
Most bandleaders are also performers with their own band. The bandleader role is dependent on a variety of skills, not just musicianship. A bandleader needs to be a music director and performer. Often the bands are named after their bandleaders. Some older bands have continued operating under their bandleaders' names long after the death of the original bandleader.
James Last (also known as "Hansi") (born Hans Last, 17 April 1929, Bremen, Germany) is a German composer and big band leader. His "happy music" made his numerous albums best-sellers in Germany and the United Kingdom. His composition, "Happy Heart", became an international success in interpretations by Andy Williams and Petula Clark. According to the British Hit Singles & Albums book, he has reportedly sold in excess of seventy million albums worldwide.
Last's father was an official at the public works department of the city of Bremen and he grew up in the suburb of Sebaldsbrück. He learned to play the piano from the age of 12, then switched to double bass as a teenager. His home city was heavily bombed in World War II and he ran messages to air defence command posts during raids. At 14 he was entered in the Bückeburg Military Music School of the German Wehrmacht.
After the fall of the Nazis, he joined Hans-Gunther Österreich's Radio Bremen Dance Orchestra in 1946. In 1948, he became the leader of the Last-Becker Ensemble, which performed for seven years. During that time, he was voted as the best bassist in the country by a German jazz poll for three consecutive years, from 1950–1952. After the Last-Becker Ensemble disbanded, he became the in-house arranger for Polydor Records, as well as for a number of European radio stations. For the next decade, he helped arrange hits for artists like Helmut Zacharias, Freddy Quinn, Lolita, Alfred Hause and Caterina Valente.
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer.
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. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.
Cab Calloway was born in a middle-class family in Rochester, New York, on Christmas Day in 1907. He lived there until moving to Baltimore, Maryland in 1918. His father, Cabell Calloway II, was a lawyer and his mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a teacher and church organist. When Cab was young, he enjoyed singing in church. His parents recognized their son's musical talent and he began private voice lessons in 1922. He continued to study music and voice throughout his formal schooling. Despite his parents' and vocal teachers' disapproval of jazz, Calloway began frequenting and eventually performing in many of Baltimore's jazz clubs, where he was mentored by drummer Chick Webb and pianist Johnny Jones.
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David Collins is a commmitment-shy Los Angeles yuppie whose girlfriend of many years, advertising executive Sarah, gives him an ultimatum: commit or get out. David has two months to decide if he wants to stay with Sarah as she leaves town for a job in New York. Following the advice from his more outgoing friends, David hits the dating scene as he tries to find his one and only soul mate, a mysterious woman he sees again and again, but always gets away before he can talk to her.
Keywords: airplane, airport, animal-in-title, animated-credits, answering-machine, apology, aquarium, band, bar, bar-mitzvah
Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?
Mike Hanson: You should stop drinking.::Girl in Bar: Why? I just got here.::Mike Hanson: Because you're driving me home.
[opens car door to see Mike Kissing a girl]::Tyler Carter Bellows: I thought you said you're gay.::Mike Hanson: Yeah, and your point is?
Mike: Always a best man, never a man.
Mike: A blind man could smell your love.
Nicole: That's when you need to say, "Buddy boy, it's time to shit or get off the pot."::Sarah: And I would be the "shit" part of that analogy?
Jonesy: You're still not telling us everything.::David Collins: Of course not, you're my friends.
David Collins: You're the only people I've ever told.::Mike Hanson: Yeah, can you keep it that way? It makes you seem kind of creepy.
Amy: [after Mike gives her a dollar when she's stripping] Wow! A dollar! Now I can quit stripping, go back to vet school, and save my sick pony.
[the waitress is missing her right forearm]::David Collins: [nervous] How's the chili here?::Mexican Restaurant Waitress: [Surly and blasé] I'd give my right arm for a bowl.
Amy: I'm just finding it so hard to know what I want Oh, if you're like most people darlin' it's right about the time you found something worth wanting.
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In the 1950's and 1960's Frank Sinatra was the head of the infamous "Rat Pack". He, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop worked and played together. This film dramatizes their volatile relationships with each other and the Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe, mobster Sam Giancano, Judith Cambell and the FBI. Sinatra helps John Kennedy get elected in 1960 with a little help from Giancano. Lawford, married to a Kennedy, is an unhappy go-between. Davis is fighting racism and insecurity. Cambell is sleeping with both Giancano and JFK who is also sleeping with Monroe.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, actor, brother, entertainer, fbi, friendship, interracial, interracial-relationship, italian-american
It was their world. We just lived in it.
They never let business get in the way of having fun.
They never let the rules get in the way of having fun.
Peter Lawford: I'm an actor, Frank! All I want to do is act in movies, and cheat on my wife. Is that too much to ask?
Frank Sinatra: If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.
Frank Sinatra: How tall are you, Peter?::Peter Lawford: About six foot one.::Frank Sinatra: Don't cut yourself off at the knees.
Frank Sinatra: [to Mia Farrow] You walk out that door baby, you walk out of my life!
Joey Bishop: Hey, did we kill tonight or what? [Dean does not reply] We killed tonight. I haven't laughed like that...::Dean Martin: ...since I played a little club in Poughkeepse back in 1944.::Joey Bishop: What're you saying, we weren't funny tonight?::Dean Martin: What I'm saying is erm... watch this. [to two women] Scuse me ladies [he babbles, and they laugh]::Joey Bishop: Yeah, so?::Dean Martin: So, the world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment pally. One of these days everybody's gonna wake up with a heck of a hangover, down two aspirin and a glass of tomato juice and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.
Frank Sinatra: There's a reason why we're all here tonight...::Dean Martin: You threatened us. [laughter] Did he threaten you too Sammy?::Sammy Davis, Jr.: Um, I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it might incinerate me baby.
Dean Martin: Hey Frank, how do you make a fruit cordial?::Frank Sinatra: I don't know Dean, how do you make a fruit cordial?::Dean Martin: Be nice to it.
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In 2021, the whole world is connected by the gigantic Internet, and almost a half of the population is suffering from the Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS).Johnny with an inplanted memory chip in his brain was ordered to transport the over loaded information from Beijing to Newark. While Pharmakom Industries supported by yakuza tries to capture him to get the informaiton back, the Low-tech group led by J-Bone tries to break the missing code to download the cure of NAS which Johnny carries.
Keywords: 2000s, 2020s, amnesia, artificial-intelligence, bad-guy, based-on-story, beijing-china, bow-and-arrow, burning-building, character-name-in-title
The future's most wanted fugitive.
The Ultimate Hard Drive
The hottest data on earth. In the coolest head in town.
The danger is all in his head
A pulse-pouding cyber-slam
Johnny Mnemonic: I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head.
Johnny Mnemonic: What the fuck is going on? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? You know, all my life, I've been careful to stay in my own corner. Looking out for Number One... no complications. Now, suddenly, I'm responsible for the *entire fucking world*, and everybody and his mother is trying to kill me, IF... IF... my head doesn't blow up first.::Jane: Maybe it's not just about you any more.::Johnny Mnemonic: Listen. You listen to me. You see that city over there? THAT'S where I'm supposed to be. Not down here with the dogs, and the garbage, and the fucking last month's newspapers blowing *back* and *forth*. I've had it with them, I've had it with you, I've had it with ALL THIS - *I want ROOM SERVICE*! I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker! I want my shirts laundered... like they do... at the Imperial Hotel... in Tokyo.
Johnny Mnemonic: You can't shoot me.::Takahashi: Not in the head.
Johnny Mnemonic: If I fall, you don't get the head, right? If you lose the head, you're fucked!
Johnny Mnemonic: They'll negotiate; they're corporate.::Jane: So's the Yakuza.
Street Preacher: Come to Jesus!
Street Preacher: [gets back on his feet after being struck by Spider's van] [mumbles] Jesus.
Street Preacher: Jesus time.
Jane: [Johnny successfully picks a lock to a door of an electronic store] Where did you learn to do that?::Johnny Mnemonic: Had a summer job breaking and entering.
J-Bone: [at the base of the LoTek headquarters: Heaven] Where's Spider?::Jane: He's dead.::J-Bone: [looks over at the twisted and burning hulk that was once Spider's van]::Jane: [shakes head] No, not there. Earlier.
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Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli).
Keywords: acrobat, aerialist, archeology, bicycle, brother, cave-in, chess, chimpanzee, circus, clown
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Brad Bradley (Alex Nicol) is a famous trumpet player who is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects down to four people, after surviving some fights and having poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet.
Keywords: address-book, agent, band, bar-fight, based-on-novel, blues-singer, bouquet-of-flowers, box-of-candy, box-of-chocolates, breaking-down-a-door
LOOK OUT...It's Loaded!
Excitement! Thrills! Suspense! will grip you like never before!
James 'Brad' Bradley: Strangest feeling in the back of my neck that somebody might throw a knife at me any minute.::Barbara Quigley: Turn your back to the wall and there won't be room for anybody to throw anything.::James 'Brad' Bradley: I feel like I've had my back to the wall ever since I set foot in this country.
Maxine Halbard: How long do you like your spaghetti cooked?::James 'Brad' Bradley: Oh... about... about ten inches. Have you lived here all your life?::Maxine Halbard: Not yet.
Maxine Halbard: The night's a kitten. Let's give her some milk.::James 'Brad' Bradley: What's this?::Maxine Halbard: Sherry - nice and dry and Spanish.::James 'Brad' Bradley: I like mine wet.::Maxine Halbard: The only other thing you can have is water.::James 'Brad' Bradley: Oh, no, no, no. Never touch it - unhygenic.::Maxine Halbard: Drink up and don't talk.
James 'Brad' Bradley: I gotta go.::Maxine Halbard: Why?::James 'Brad' Bradley: Ask the clock.
James 'Brad' Bradley: [narrating as he enters a dingy club] This didn't look like a safe place to take your mother. In fact, it looked like a place you leave horizontally or not at all.
James 'Brad' Bradley: [apologizing after being bumped into the musicians] Can I, uh, can I get you a drink to make it up?::Barbara Quigley: I wouldn't use force to stop you. [as Brad is walking away] Ask the man for the bottle! [he does a double take]::James 'Brad' Bradley: [sarcastically, to the bartender] If I asked her if she wanted a smoke, do you think she'd order a flamethrower?::Bartender: Ask her and see.
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Deresco owner of a night club in neutral Portugal, works a free-lance spy for everybody who can afford his price. He tries to get information from US agent John Craig with help from immigrant dancer Maritza, but she falls in love with him. Craig becomes a special "guest" at Deresco's casino, but there you can't be sure of the occupation of everybody, as well as in their political intention...
Keywords: nightclub, spy, world-war-two