Results for "North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra"

North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra

Duke Ellington -- A Centennial Collection

By North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra

Label: Metro
Released: 1999

North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra: Benny Goodman -- The Swing Collection

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 1999

During the Swing Era there were two clarinetists who stood above the rest, at least in terms of mass popularity — Artie Shaw and the King of Swing himself, Benny Goodman. Even though Goodman, who organized his first big band in 1934, has been gone for 13 years his popularity has seldom waned, and the music ...

North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra: Duke Ellington -- A Centennial Collection

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

I’ve heard many tributes to Duke Ellington during the centennial year of his birth, but few that were more enjoyable than this impressive survey of his music by the relatively young and almost unknown North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra. It’s too bad that most people outside the Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill area, where the orchestra makes its home, ...

Holiday Jazz Blizzard

By North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra

Label: VAC
Released: 1998

North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra: Holiday Jazz Blizzard

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

Just in time for the holidays comes this welcome “blizzard” of traditional melodies and other songs of the season carefully transplanted to a congenial Jazz climate by the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra. Among the well–known works gleaming in handsome new packages are the carols “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” “Good King Wenceslas” and “We Three ...