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Depaul University Jazz Ensemble

Randy Brecker: Hittin' It with "RandyPOP!"

by Bob Kenselaar
November 3, 2015

In his 62 years playing music--starting trumpet at eight years old--Randy Brecker has played all kinds of music, but for many years now, he's mostly been known as a solid, top-flight, first-call jazz player, a modern post-bop soloist and bandleader who carries around his old '70s fusion-funk Brecker Brothers fame in his back pocket. So, with ...

Salutes Woody Herman

By Depaul University Jazz Ensemble

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2013
Track listing: Woodchopper’s Ball; Sidewalks of Cuba; Early Autumn; Laura; Lemon Drop; Blue Flame; Sonny Speaks; Apple Honey; Four Brothers; Bijou; The Good Earth.

DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Salutes Woody Herman

by Nicholas F. Mondello
October 22, 2013

Anecdotes of all kinds about bandleader Woody Herman-- whose centennial is celebrated this year--circulate among musicians and fans to this day. From them, we deduce that “The Chopper" had a straight-razor tongue, wry humor, and less-than-zero patience for disingenuous fan-fawning over himself or his band's celebrity. Even as road-weary big bands faded from the scene and ...

The Depaul University Jazz Ensemble: Salutes Woody Herman

by Jack Bowers
September 30, 2013

Were he still with us, bandleader Woody Herman would have turned one hundred years young on May 16, 2013. What better way, then, to mark the occasion than by doing something that made “the Chopper" happier than anything else: swinging hard and often. Chicago's DePaul University Jazz Ensemble does precisely that on this superb album comprised ...

Shade Street

By Depaul University Jazz Ensemble

Label: Blue Birdland Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Eleventh Hour; Shade Street*; From One Who Cares; Song for My Mother; First Steps; One for Monterey*; Grey Matter*; I Thought about You*

DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Shade Street

by Dave Nathan
January 1, 2001

In addition to heading the Chicago Skyliners Big Band, Bill O'Connell has a record label which he uses not only for his own productions but from time to time to put to disc the offerings of local university jazz groups. This time he has captured two separate sessions by the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble. Under the ...

Shade Street

By Depaul University Jazz Ensemble

Label: Blue Birdland Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Eleventh Hour; Shade Street*; From One Who Cares; Song for My Mother; First Steps; One for Monterey*; Grey Matter*; I Thought about You*

DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Shade Street

by Dave Nathan
December 1, 2000

In addition to heading the Chicago Skyliners Big Band, Bill O'Connell has a record label which he uses not only for his own productions but from time to time to put to disc the offerings of local university jazz groups. This time it's two separate sessions by the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble. Under the leadership of ...

Shade Street

By Depaul University Jazz Ensemble

Label: Blue Birdland Records
Released: 1999