This day (December 15, 2011), in New London, New Hampshire,, died Bob Brookmeyer, an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger and composer.

Dinah Shore, Andy Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, Milt Jackson, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Dave Brubeck, Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Jim Hall, Jean Luc Ponty, Herbie Hancock

Deodato, The Zawinul Syndicate, Billy Cobham, Max Roach, Horace Silver, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, Benny Goodman, Vi Redd, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Arista All Stars, Rahsaan Roland Kirk

This day (January 20, 1996), in Darien, Connecticut, died Gerry Mulligan, an American jazz baritone saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

This day (December 11, 2013), in New-York City, died James Stanley a.k.a. Jim Hall, an American jazz guitarist.

Gerry Mulligan's 'Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet' is a studio album recorded on September 21and October 22 & 31, 1955 In 1955 and released the same year by Emarcy.

This day (September 18, 2014), in London, died Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler a.k.a. Kenny Wheeler, a Canadian composer, trumpet and flugelhorn player.

Stan Getz' 'Big Band Bossa Nova' is an album recorded on August 27 and 28, 1962 with the Gary McFarland Orchestra and released the same year by Verve.

Mahavishnu Orchestra's 'Birds of Fire' is the second studio (and the last by the original line-up) album recorded during August 1972 and released in March 1973 by C.B.S.

'The Genius of Ray Charles' is his sixth studio album mixing big band songs with string-backed ballads, recorded on May 6 and June 23, 1959 and released in October 1959 by Atlantic. .

Featuring Crazy Swede . Marshall Gilkes . Fred Wesley . Hindemith . Trombone . Samba . Gunhilde and Gerd . Jubilee Stomp . 24 Trombones . Scarborough Fair . Raul de Souza . Cave Jazz . 4G Trombone Quartet . Stardust