In 1966, trumperter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis chose New York's Village Vanguard as the site for a Monday night gathering of jazz musicians. More than 40 years later, with its founders long gone, the band now known as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra continues to be one of the most innovative big bands in jazz history and a creative outlet for the nation's foremost performers, composers, and arrangers.

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