Jazz Articles about Lars Halle

The Lars Halle Jazz Orchestra: Speaking of Apropos

by Jack Bowers
May 25, 2005

Speaking of stylish big bands that seem to emerge fully grown from out of nowhere, here's Speaking of Apropos, recorded about a year ago by drummer Lars Halle's eighteen-piece ensemble--not from nowhere but from that prominent breeding ground for outstanding East Coast jazz, Philadelphia, PA, where Halle, a Swedish expatriate, earns his daily bread teaching at the University of the Arts.

Even though the album, like many big-band enterprises these days, was fashioned on a shoestring and held together by ...