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by Jack Bowers
Move over DIVA, SWOJO, Kit McClure, Maiden Voyage and other all-women big bands; you've got company. Even though the new kid on the block is only eight years old, she plays with perception and maturity well beyond her years. Born in Oakland, California and named in honor of that city's Montclair Women's Cultural Arts Club, she is fast establishing a reputation as one of the most formidable new jazz ensembles, male or female, on the West Coast. And now, thanks ...
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by Edward Blanco
Referred to as one of the best-kept secrets in jazz, the Oakland-based Montclair Women's Big Band unveils fourteen classic jazz and blues standards on this self-titled debut album. Under the direction of trumpeter and bandleader Ellen Seeling, this seventeen-piece ensenmble plays regularly at the Montclair Women's Cultural Arts Club. The band is comprised of players from all over the Bay Area; this recording also showcases three vocalists--Vicki Randle of the Tonight Show house band, Linda Tillery of the Cultural Heritage ...
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