Talk:The Tonight Show Band

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Something should be said about this being the last show of the Tonight Show band. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.30.253 (talk) 03:55, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Louie Bellson's first name is Luigi, not Louis. I changed Louis back to louie because that's how he was billed. John FitzGerald

I do not believe that Kenny Kirkland was ever the keyboard player for Conan O'Brien. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.42.114.202 (talk) 06:21, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article errs by omitting the earlier NBC orchestras under Toscanini and Stokowski. --Dystopos (talk) 20:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I fixed the redirect from "NBC Orchestra", pointing it to NBC Symphony Orchestra. That probably takes care of the biggest shortcoming. --Dystopos (talk) 20:16, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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  Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band be merged with page The Tonight Show Band? Or what? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:15, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply
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This article omits a personnel list for the Branford Marsalis version of the Tonight Show Band. This list was verified against the personnel listing for the joint composition "Shuffle Boy Blues" shown at http://www.faqs.org/copyright/the-tonight-show-theme-by-branford-marsalis-larrys-tunes/ .

Branford Marsalis: bandleader, tenor and soprano saxophone
Robert Hurst: bass
Kenny Kirkland: keyboards
Vicki Randle: percussion
Matt Finders: trombone
Kevin Eubanks: guitar
Jeff "Tain" Watts: drums
Sal Marquez: trumpet

--Typothetical (talk) 21:55, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]