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Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra

Labor of Love

By Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra

Label: Chicago Lakeside Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Reuben's Blues; Send in the Clowns; Just Friends; My Old Flame; All of Me*; My One and only Love; Take the "A" Train; When Sunny Gets Blue*; Samba Da Yo; A Little Minor Booze; Out of Nowhere; Malaguena

Kive and Screamin'

By Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra

Label: Chicago Lakeside Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Magic Flea; A Time for Love; What's New; Maria; I Remember Stan; Fitz; Yesterdays; El Congo Valiente; Blue; Greasy Sack Blue; But Beautiful; Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most; Here's That Rainy Day; MacArthur Park

Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orch.: Labor of Love

by Dave Nathan
December 1, 2000

CMJO Leader Lenny King makes no bones about it. He looks to Stan Kenton and his great arrangers for his musical inspiration. The group plays in the style of the Kenton groups, not in imitation, but more in admiration. This album features arrangements by Bill Holman, Gene Roland, Marty Paich and Lennie Niehaus. It also has ...

Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra: Kive and Screamin'

by Dave Nathan
December 1, 2000

Recorded at two separate performances in 1997 at FitzGerald's Night Club and originally released in March of 1998, the Chicago Lakeside Jazz label has now reissued the two concerts by the Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra under the leadership of Lenny King. Guesting is former Stan Kenton trumpet player Dennis Noday whose high atmosphere pyrotechnics are featured ...

The Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra: Labor of Love

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2000

The Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra’s first recording ( Live and Screamin’, a concert date from October–November ’97) was so impressive the thought here was that only a “labor of love” could possibly equal or surpass it. Well, the millennium has arrived, and with it the CMJO’s Labor of Love, and if the band’s second excursion can’t ...