The Miles Davis Quintet, The Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra, The Oscar Peterson Trio, The Testore Trio.
Classical Orchestras generally tell you where they come from:
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, The Auckland Philharmonia.
Sometimes chanber ensembles take their name from someone who inspires them or whose music they play:
The Mozart Quintet, The Orpheus String Quartet.
Okay, so far it's all making sense.
Let's move onto rock bands:
The Small Faces
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| Hang on, where did that name come from? |
The Animals
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Not something you'd really want
to advertise!
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Dragon
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| Well, at least Robert and Darek will like this one! |
Gosh, I never thought that I'd agree with Akish but I do. Some of the names are stupid. Often they are pretentious. I too liked the good old names of those bands of previous years like The Mills Brothers; The Andrews Sisters, The Prowse Brothers etc.
ReplyDeletere The Small Faces they could just as easily been labelled The Ugly Faces.
re Dragon I used to fancy Robert Taylor's girlfriend back in the '70s.