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Mike Vax
The Mike Vax Jazz Orchestra & The Mike Vax Big Band Is there anyone crazy enough to lead one big band, let alone two? The answer is yes, he’s Mike Vax! Mike is the Director of The Mike Vax Jazz Orchestra (MVJO), and The Mike Vax Big Band (MVBB). The Mike Vax Jazz Orchestra The current MVJO (formerly the New Oakland Jazz Orchestra) is made up of musicians from many of the most famous big bands, such as: Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Duke Ellington, Clark Terry, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Ray McKinley, and Tex Beneke. These musicians are some of the finest to reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Mike Vax Big Band The Mike Vax Big Band features alumni from the 1952 - 1978 Stan Kenton Orchestra
Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine: Mazel Tov Kocktail!
by Jack Bowers
Any big band that has been alive and kicking for forty-two years surely deserves a Mazel Tov or two. Ira B. Liss formed his San Diego-based Big Band Jazz Machine in 1979, and it has been standing tall on the local scene ever since. Although the band puts its best foot forward at the outset on ...
Mike Vax: Getting Vaxinated
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Mike Vax has one of the shortest surnames in jazz musiche's tied" with Tommy Vig and Jack Six for that honor. However, those familiar with his activities as a well-respected lead trumpeter and soloist with Stan Kenton, a stalwart member of the famous Dukes of Dixieland, the leader and man behind the annual tour of the ...
US Military Service Bands: Histories & Heroes
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 US Air Force Airmen of Note The premier jazz ensemble of the US Air Force, the Airmen of Note is one of six musical ensembles that comprise The US Air Force Band. Created in 1950 to continue the tradition of Major Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces ...
Flyin' Through Florida
By Mike Vax
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Artistry Jumps; Someday; After You’ve Gone . . . Finally; In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning; Psyche; O Mio Babbino; How High the Moon / Ornithology; Young at Heart; The Trashman Cometh; Through the Eyes of Love; Shazam; El Manisero, la Ultima Vez.
Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra: Flyin' Through Florida
by Jack Bowers
The number of jazz-centered big bands on the road" these days can be counted on the fingers of one hand with a digit or two to spare. The Glenn Miller and Count Basie orchestras remain randomly active, the Duke Ellington and Woody Herman progeny somewhat less so. As for the rest . . . R.I.P. Stan ...
The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra In Great Barrington Massachusetts on April 15
The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra (“SKLO”) will make its first and only Berkshires appearance this year on Sunday, April 15, at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The 7pm concert will be a big band double-header, with the Monument Mountain Jazz Band opening for the Kenton Legacy band. Kenton was one of the ...
Shorty Rogers: Short Stops
by Richard J Salvucci
In the 1980s, trumpeter and Kenton alum Mike Vax put together a Supersax-type group called TRPTS. It released an album of harmonized trumpet classics, one of which was Short Stop." There are lots of great tunes including Night in Tunisia," Trumpet Blues and Cantabile," and Heckler's Hop." Oh yeah, one I never heard, Shorty Rogers' Short ...
Storming Through the South
By Mike Vax
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Beat 70; Roy’s Blues Revisited; Summer Violets; I’m Glad There Is You; Lefty Leaps In; Virna; Come Out Swingin’!; Shell Game; It Might as Well Be Spring; You Turned the Tables on Me; Passages; Slow Boat to China; I’m Getting Sentimental Over You; Intro to Malaguena; Malaguena; Band Intro.
The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra: Storming Through the South
by Jack Bowers
First, three hearty cheers and a laurel wreath for trumpeter Mike Vax who has kept the splendid Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra together (with some inescapable changes in personnel, not to mention name) for twenty-five years, supervised no less than eighteen annual road tours and produced half a dozen in-concert albums, the most recent of which, Storming ...