Orchestra Jazz dell' Universit

Orchestra Jazz dell' Universit: Take the "U" Train

by Jack Bowers
June 25, 2003

This is a fairly decent college-level ensemble from Salerno, Italy, but ‘U’ Train includes eight vocals on its dozen tracks, which would be far beyond my threshold of tolerance for big-band albums even if they were sung by Ella Fitzgerald or June Christy.

In this case, they are divided between Virginia Sorrentino and Mariateresa Petrosino (I’ve no way of knowing who sings on which numbers), both of whom are language majors, which seems to have helped their English, even though ...