Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra

Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra: Return Journey

by Jack Bowers
November 29, 2014

Return Journey, the fourth recording --and first in four years --by Daryl McKenzie's splendid Jazz Orchestra from Melbourne, Australia, was inspired in part by McKenzie's visit to the States in 2012 wherein he renewed ties with many of his onetime musical mates and colleagues and briefly returned “home" to the University of North Texas in Denton. One thing that sets the album apart from most other big-band enterprises is the fact that it is comprised entirely of bonzer original compositions ...