Warren Daly was co-founder of the
Daly-Wilson Big Band
Daly-Wilson Big Band was an Australian jazz group formed in 1968 by Warren Daly on drums and Ed Wilson on trombone. The business manager and silent partner was Don Raverty. The line-up, at times, was an eighteen-piece ensemble, that played popu ...
, named after Daly and trombonist/arranger Ed Wilson, and formed in 1968. In 1975, with corporate sponsorship, the band toured internationally including the Soviet Union. It has been described as "Australia's most commercially successful jazz orchestra".
Following a later split with Wilson, Daly formed the Warren Daly Big Band.
In the
1991 Queen's Birthday Honours, Daly was awarded the Medal of the
Order of Australia (OAM) "for service to music as band leader and drummer".
References
External links
Warren Daly website
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Living people
Australian jazz musicians
Australian jazz drummers
21st-century Australian male musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia