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Chicago, Illinois
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. He earned a
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degree from the
University of Illinois
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, and moved to New York City in 1975. In 1978, he joined the
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band
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. He spent six years as a featured soloist with that band and its successor, Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra (now the
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
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).
In 1981, he began a four-year tenure as pianist/composer with the Stan Getz Quartet. From 1990 until 1995, he was the pianist in the
Phil Woods
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Quintet. In 1996, he re-joined the
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
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as pianist. He is still associated with the Vanguard Orchestra as composer-in-residence.
From 1998 to 2002, McNeely was chief conductor of the
DR Big Band
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in Copenhagen, Denmark.
, he was chief conductor of the HR (
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) Big Band in
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, Germany. He is currently their Composer-in-Residence. He has appeared as guest with many of Europe's leading jazz orchestras such as the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw (the Netherlands), the WDR Big Band (Cologne, Germany), the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra (Sweden) and the Swiss Jazz Orchestra. McNeely also leads his own tentet, his own trio, and appears as soloist at concerts and festivals worldwide. He has recorded more than 20 albums as leader, receiving twelve Grammy nominations between 1997 and 2019.
As part of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, he received a Grammy Award for the album ''
Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard
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'' in 2008.
McNeely is professor emeritus at Manhattan School of Music, and is former musical director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop.
A former resident of
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'', February 8, 2004. Accessed August 18, 2012. "Nominated in various jazz categories are the saxophonist and Newark native Wayne Shorter; the pianist Keith Jarrett, from western New Jersey; the percussionist and Newark resident Stefon Harris; and the pianist, composer and arranger Jim McNeely, of Montclair, has been nominated for best instrumental arrangement for an album by Renee Rosnes and the Danish Radio Big Band." and Maplewood, New Jersey he now resides in Owls Head, Maine .
Muse
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, 1979)
* ''From the Heart'', (Owl, 1984)
* ''Winds of Change'', (SteepleChase, 1989)
* ''East Coast Blow Out'' (w/
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), (Lipstick, 1989)
* ''Jigsaw'' (w/Stockholm Jazz Orch.), ( Dragon, 1991)
* '' Jim McNeely at Maybeck'', (Concord, 1992)
* ''Sound Bites'' (w/Stockholm Jazz Orch.), (Dragon, 1997)
* ''Lickety Split'' (w/Vanguard Jazz Orch.), (
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, 1997)
* ''Nice Work'' (w/
Danish Radio Big Band
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), ( Dacapo, 2000) – recorded in 1998
* ''Group Therapy'' (Jim McNeely Tentet), (OmniTone, 2001)
* ''The Power and the Glory: A salute to Louis Armstrong'' (w/Danish Radio Big Band, feat. Leroy Jones), ( Storyville, 2001)
* ''Play Bill Evans'' (w/Danish Radio Big Band), ( Stunt, 2002)
* ''In This Moment'' (w/Adam Nussbaum, Lennart Ginman), (Stunt, 2003)
* ''Up From the Skies'' (w/Vanguard Jazz Orch.), ( Planet Arts, 2006)
* ''Dedication Suite'' (w/Danish Radio Big Band), (Cope, 2006) – recorded in 2002
* ''Paul Klee'' (w/Swiss Jazz Orch.), ( Mons, 2006)
* ''Boneyard'' (w/Kelly Sill, Joel Spencer), (
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, 2006)
* ''Remember the Sound'' (w/George Robert Jazztet), (TCB, 2008)
* ''A Single Sky'' (w/Dave Douglas & Frankfurt Radio Big Band), ( Greenleaf, 2009)
* ''Quest for Freedom'' (w/David Liebman, Richie Beirach & Frankfurt Radio Big Band), ( Sunnyside, 2010)
* ''
Barefoot Dances and Other Visions
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'' (w/Frankfurt Radio Big Band), ( Planet Arts, 2018)
* ''Rituals'' (Frankfurt Radio Big Band and Chris Potter), ( Double Moon Records, 2022)
* ''Threnody'' (Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw), ( Challenge Records, 2022)
With
Ted Curson
Theodore Curson (June 3, 1935 – November 4, 2012) was an American jazz trumpeter.
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Curson was born in Philadelphia. He became interested in playing trumpet after watching a newspaper salesman play a silver trumpet. Curson's fath ...
Jubilant Power
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Snake Johnson
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Mel Lewis
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Mellifluous
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Ronan Guilfoyle
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Ethan Iverson
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Iverson was born in Menomonie, Wisconsin. ...