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Robbie Harvey: Blowin' That Old Tin Can
by Bruce Lindsay
Robbie Harvey is one of the new young breed of straight-ahead, mainstream, jazz players whose emergence over the last decade or so gives lovers of the genre a warm feeling and an optimism for the future. What's more, his instrument of choice is the trombone. Blowin' That Old Tin Can is his debut album as leader--the title may be somewhat dismissive of his chosen horn, but the music is a celebration of its sound and of its place in a ...
read moreEd Puddick Big Band: Guys and Dolls
by Robert J. Robbins
In the hands of the twenty-something bandleader and arranger Ed Puddick and his equally young, London-based seventeen-piece ensemble, Frank Loesser's classic Broadway score joins the ranks of those which have been adapted for big band (Stan Kenton's West Side Story, Les Brown's South Pacific, and Ted Heath's The Sound of Music all come to mind). Puddick's writing combines the lush voicings of Gil Evans' arrangements for the late 1940s Claude Thornhill band with Bill Holman's linear counterpoint, Shorty Rogers' Basie-inspired ...
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