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Awakening
By University of Toronto 10 O'Clock Jazz Orchestra
Label: UTJ
Released: 2007
Track listing: Too Pretty for Words; The Highland Gate; Tall Shadows; Ballad for Mr. G; Is This the Underground; Awakening; Calendula; Ivar Dreams; Early One Morning (66:48).
University of Toronto 10 O'Clock Jazz Orchestra: Awakening
by Jack Bowers
Here's today's trivia question: How can one separate Canada's A-level university jazz ensembles from their working professional counterparts? The answer: One can't. At least, not if said undergrad ensembles are from Montreal's McGill University or the University of Toronto, either of which readily bears comparison to that country's (or any country's) more seasoned play-for-pay bands. Awakening, ...
The University of Toronto 10 O'Clock Jazz Orchestra: Off the Cuff
by Jack Bowers
The second recording by the University of Toronto's well·upholstered 10 O'Clock Jazz Orchestra is an uncommonly bright and burnished two·disc symposium, the first half of which is devoted entirely to the music of composer / arranger / pianist Jim McNeely. When one considers that the university's Jazz Performance Degree was established little more than a decade ...
The University of Texas Jazz Orchestra: Sixth Floor Jazz
by Jack Bowers
This is the second recording I’ve heard by the UT Jazz Orchestra. The first, Loose Ends, encompassed a five–year period during which UT’s Jazz Studies program housed a number of remarkable players including saxophonists Jeff Benedict and Charlie Richard, trumpeters Steve Hawk and Tom Tallman, trombonist Gary Smith, guitarist Dave Burdick and drummer Roger Schupp. Sixth ...