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The Big Band of the Hochschule f: IASJ Gala Concert

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2000

As the motivating force behind the establishment in 1989 of the International Association of Schools of Jazz and now its artistic director, it is appropriate that soprano saxophonist David Liebman should have been one of two guest soloists with the Big Band of the Hochschule für Musik Köln at the IASJ’s annual Gala Concert in April 1998 at the Music Academy in Cologne, Germany. (For an overview of how the IASJ came to be formed, see my January column at ...