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Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra

Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra: Travel Notes

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2014

Travel Notes, the seventh album by the Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra, is much like the first half-dozen: big-band jazz whose design and performance are as consistently strong and artistic as one can envision at any level. Tom Knific, WMU's director of Jazz Studies since 2000, has a keen ear for engaging songs, one of which ...

Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra: Boogaloo Land

by Edward Blanco
December 16, 2005

A three-time winner of Downbeat magazine's annual student music awards in the college big band category, the Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra offers a riveting and exciting performance with its sixth impressive album. Due credit must be given to Trent Kynaston and Scott Cowan, who together have directed and produced a dynamic album of uncommon standards ...

Blue Miles

By Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra

Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 1999

Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra: Blue Miles

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 1999

The award–winning and Grammy–nominated WMU Jazz Orchestra returns for a third date on Sea Breeze, for which the ensemble earns another impressive report card. Nothing seems beyond their purview, from straight–ahead cookers by Matt Catingub (“Indian Riffs”), Robert Lewis (“Poste Haste”) or Matt Harris (“Rompe Cabezas”) to more demanding works by Thelonious Monk (“Misterioso”), Chick Corea ...