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University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble

University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble: On the Road

by Jack Bowers
January 7, 2018

The University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble was indeed On the Road in recent years, performing the first eight of the fourteen numbers on this impressive album at the 2017 Elmhurst College (IL) Jazz Festival, the others at the Montreux and North Sea (Netherlands) Jazz Festivals in 2011. If you are puzzled by the lack of audience ...

University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble: Dialogues

by Jim Santella
January 1, 1999

Directed by saxophonist Miles Osland, the University of Kentucky’s Jazz Ensemble performs a varied program of big band arrangements. The leader performs Gary Foster’s Latin ballad “Tesoro" on alto sax with subtle accompaniment from his charges. They work together well as a team and Osland demonstrates that he is a superb artist. He performs “Take Me ...

Dialogues

By University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble

Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 1998

University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble: Dialogues

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 1998

The third recording on disc by the University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble mirrors the forward–leaning temperament of its leader, Miles Osland, with venturesome charts by Bob Mintzer, Gordon Goodwin, Don Menza, Bill Holman and Bryan Murray sharing the bill of fare with more accessible works by Juan Tizol, Gary Foster, Bob Florence, Albert Alva, Ernie Watts ...