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Big Bands Greatest Hits

Label: Blue Birdland Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: In the Mood; Things Ain?t What They Used to Be; Mack the Knife; Who Can I Turn To?; Begin the Beguine; In a Mellow Tone; Stardust; Which Craft; Alright, Okay, You Win; Fly Me to the Moon; Shiny Stockings; April in Paris; Opus One; A String of Pearls; Sing Sing Sing; Take the ?A? Train (64:56).

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Shade Street

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*

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Contemporary Classics

Label: Blue Birdland Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: In the Mood; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Mack the Knife; Who Can I Turn To?; Begin the Beguine; In a Mellow Tone; Stardust; Which Craft; Alright, Okay, You win; Fly Me to the Moon; Shiny Stockings; April in Paris; Opus One; String of Pearls; Sing Sing Sing; Take the "A" Train

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Bill O'Connell's Chicago Skyliners Big Band: Contemporary Classics

Read "Contemporary Classics" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Looking at the song list of Bill O'Connell's fine Chicago Skyliners Big Band latest album, one gets a sinking feeling that the band had regressed to regurgitating big band tunes and arrangements of yore, especially given the album subtitle, Big Band's Greatest Hits. But this concerns goes away when the CD is put into the player. ...

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Bill O'Connell's Chicago Skyliners Big Band: Big Bands Greatest Hits

Read "Big Bands Greatest Hits" reviewed by Jack Bowers


This is the kind of album, says drummer Bill O'Connell, that his Chicago Skyliners must release from time to time to induce the paying gigs that help keep the ensemble together. But even though the songs on Big Bands Greatest Hits are for the most part Swing Era classics, the charts have been lovingly renovated by ...

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DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Shade Street

Read "Shade Street" reviewed by Dave Nathan


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 ...

Album

Shade Street

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*

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Play It Again, Sammy

Label: Blue Birdland Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Play It Again, Sammy; Dimensions in Blue; Walk in the Park; Basie?Straight Ahead (accessible version); It?s Oh, So Nice; Lonely Street; Fun Time; The Queen Bee; That Warm Feeling; Switch in Time; Magic Flea; Hay Burner; Ya Gotta Try; Basie?Straight Ahead (professional version) (49:26).

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DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Shade Street

Read "Shade Street" reviewed by Dave Nathan


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 ...

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Bill O'Connell's Chicago Skyliners Big Band: Play It Again, Sammy

Read "Play It Again, Sammy" reviewed by Jack Bowers


For those who can't get enough Basie, especially Basie""style charts written by quintessential swingmeister Sammy Nestico, Play It Again, Sammy may be just the ticket. The disc's subtitle is “The Count Basie / Sammy Nestico Years, and much of the material on offer has been recycled from an earlier LP (and later, CD), Basie Straight Ahead, ...


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