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The West Point Band's Jazz Knights
For almost four decades the United States Military Academy Band’s Jazz Knights have brought musical excellence to their audiences by presenting the best in big band favorites, popular music, and original compositions and arrangements for jazz ensemble. Members of the group are graduates of some of America's most prestigious music schools such as the University Of North Texas, Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, Berklee School of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. They are recruited and selected through a competitive audition process specifically for service in the United States Military Academy Band at West Point
Turning Points
By The West Point Band's Jazz Knights
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Speak Low; Joy Spring; Turning Points; I Should Care; How I Wish; Infant Eyes; The Awakening; The Dark Moon; So Many Stars.
The West Point Band's Jazz Knights: Turning Points
by Edward Blanco
Based at the United States Military Academy in upstate New York, the West Point Band's Jazz Knights just happens to be one of those unheralded big bands around. Performing at public events as part of its official duties, the Knights are rarely given the credit they are due as an uncommon and exceptional musical organization. Perhaps ...
At First Light
By The West Point Band's Jazz Knights
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009
Track listing: Alone Together; At First Light; The Monster Brooks No Pretense; Suo Gan; Dangerous Ground;
Secret Love; The Stakeout; Samba for Megan; The Basilisk.
Estate
Featuring the music of The West Point Band's Jazz Knights
Duration: 9:13
The West Point Band's Jazz Knights: At First Light
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Decades ago, the great bandleader Stan Kenton created a spoken prologue to an album recording. It was entitled This Is an Orchestra." In that brief monologue, which was interspersed with brief performance examples, Kenton detailed the individual and ensemble components, integration, and overall creative mix that made" the Kenton Jazz Orchestra what it was.
The West Point Band's Jazz Knights: At First Light
by Jerry D'Souza
The United States Military Academy has several bands drawn from graduates of prestigious music schools in the U.S. The Jazz Knights, who form one segment, have been around for 30 years. During that time they have played with Benny Goodman and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and have also welcomed Steve Turre, James Carter and John Clayton, ...
The West Point Band's Jazz Knights: At First Light
by Woodrow Wilkins
Imagine serving your country by displaying your artistic gifts. That's what the members of the West Point Band's Jazz Knights do, and they do it well. The U.S. Military Academy Band's Jazz Knights have been doing it for more than 30 years. The members are carefully selected from various institutions around the United States. ...
The West Point Band's Jazz Knights: At First Light
by Dan McClenaghan
The Jazz Knights, West Point's jazz ensemble, is the U.S Army's contribution to big band jazz. An outfit that recruits its members from the finest of the nation's music education schools, it has produced a vibrant, first rate outing with At First Light.It's obvious within the first moments of the opening cut, the Dietz/Swartz ...
The West Point Band's Jazz Knights: At First Light
by Edward Blanco
With jazz music under assault lately from the recent loss of IAJE to the demise of jazz radio stations throughout the country, it's comforting to know that jazz has many defenders everywhere. Among them are the soldier-musicians from the United States Military Academy at West Point, known as The Academy's Jazz Knights Big Band. ...