Jazz Articles about Phil Kelly and the SW Santa Ana Winds

Phil Kelly and the SW Santa Ana Winds: My Museum

by Jack Bowers
October 27, 2006

Phil Kelly and the SW Santa Ana Winds My Museum Origin Records 2006

To paraphrase the peerless Bard of Avon, a wind from any other clime would blow as hot--or as cool. Last year, composer/arranger Phil Kelly happily introduced big band enthusiasts to the turbulent NW Prevailing Winds (Seattle) on the stormy album Convergence Zone; this year, he has empowered the cyclonic SW Santa Ana Winds (Los Angeles) to raise the barometric pressure and ...