Running a jazz big band in 2010 involves skill in composing, arranging, conducting and scheduling; it also involves nerve, because a big band these days is naturally a kind of statement, a platform for adventuresome writing or maintaining a tradition.
The four CD's of "Q" divide the work into big-band sides he arranged, conducted or both (on a disc called "Jumpin' in the Woodshed"), selections from soundtracks ("Gone Hollywood"), famous numbers by famous people he has produced ("Hit Man") and finally a nimble, expansive compilation of material released under his name ("The Dude Throws Down").
A string arrangement, arranged and conducted by Foster, was overdubbed on 6 June at A&M.
They are, however, drastically changing some of the ways they arrange and conduct their trips both domestically and around the world.
Over the years, Mr. O'Farrill was sought out occasionally to arrange and conduct by those who knew his music, including Gato Barbieri and David Bowie.
His greatest pleasure in Washington has probably been to arrange and conduct expeditions of several more or less isolationist congressmen to England just before Pearl Harbor.
Philips would release American product from Columbia and when their artists visited the UK, Stott would arrange and conduct their recordings.
First, "the investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve," he says.
The label had a relatively small staff and Stott's job was to assist Johnny Franz in selecting material for the artists and then to arrange and conduct the recording session, which Franz produced.
That's me?' " So Mr. Griffin hired his old bandleader, Mort Lindsey, who was Judy Garland's conductor at her famous Carnegie Hall concert in 1961, to arrange and conduct, and persuaded Mr. Lindsey's son Steve, a producer who usually works with singers like Trisha Yearwood and Aaron Neville, to produce for him.
