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The Toronto Jazz Orchestra: 20
by Dan McClenaghan
The Toronto Jazz Orchestra, aka TJO, was created to perform music by the major jazz composers, like Miles Davis and his Miles Ahead (Columbia Records, 1958), the trumpeter's collaboration with Gil Evans, for one. With 20, the group celebrates the composition and arranging skills of its artistic director, Josh Grossman. With a twenty year ...
Georgie and Rose
Album: 20
By The Toronto Jazz Orchestra
Label: TJO
Released: 2018
Duration: 07:03
. . .Out of Nowhere
By Octobop
Label: TJO
Released: 2013
Track listing: Bug in a Rug; Out of Nowhere; Lonesome Boulevard; Embarcadero; Cars and Coffee; I’ll Take Romance; Charade; Beautiful Love; Baby Elephant Walk; Whatever Possessed Me?; Romaine; Sunset Eyes; El Gaucho.
Octobop: . . .Out of Nowhere
by Jack Bowers
With Octobop, what you see (and hear) is what you get: “octo," as in octet, and “bop," as in swinging, straight-from-the-shoulder jazz as practiced by the legendary masters who rewrote the music's vocabulary in the '40s, '50s and '60s. Saxophonist and prime mover Geoff Roach leads the California-based group on its sixth CD, Out of Nowhere, ...
This Is TJO
Label: TJO
Released: 2006
Track listing: Bohica; African Skies; Catch the Early Trane; Third Ear; It Is Time; Gibraltar; A Nod to Cee Cee; Your Mileage May Vary; Ludis Blues (64:57).
Temple Jazz Orchestra: This Is TJO
by Jack Bowers
The Temple Jazz Orchestra, which began life about fifteen years ago as a part of the Jazz Studies program at Temple College, has evolved into a professional ensemble whose members include a number of the best big band musicians and educators in central Texas. The TJO was founded by its current director, Tom Fairlie, who triples ...
Soft Lights, Sweet Music Live!
Label: TJO
Released: 2002
Track listing: Blues and the Abscessed Tooth; The Messenger; You
The Temple Jazz Orchestra: Soft Lights, Sweet Music Live!
by Jack Bowers
On first hearing, Soft Lights, Sweet Music left me shaking my head in disbelief. How, I wondered, could a Jazz ensemble from a two–year college in an undersized east–central Texas town possibly be that good? Something in the drinking water, perhaps? Seeking an explanation for the TJO’s remarkable proficiency, I turned to the liner notes and ...
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