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Steve Wiest Big Band

Jazz trombonist Steve Wiest is in great demand as a featured artist, composer/arranger and clinician. Throughout the U.S., he is enjoying success and critical acclaim as he pursues an ambitious performing schedule while continuing to record, compose and arrange. Steve has also appeared in Canada, South America, Australia, Japan, and Europe. From 1981-1986, Steve was the featured trombonist and one of the arrangers for Maynard Ferguson's Band. While with Maynard, he recorded two CDs: "Storm" and "Live From San Francisco", and one two-volume video: "The Playboy Jazz Festival". During this time, Steve and the Maynard Ferguson band also performed with a number of guest artists including: Freddie Hubbard, Slide Hampton, Wynton Marsalis, David Clayton Thomas, Lew Soloff, Billy Eckstein, and Mel Torme

Album

Excalibur

Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: Cheek to Cheek; Excalibur; The Once and Future Groove; I Concentrate on You; Cerulean 12; The Silver Spin; A Night in Pidruid; On Green Dolphin Street (68:46).

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Article: Album Review

The Steve Wiest Big Band: Excalibur

Read "Excalibur" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Even though the odds are heavily against them, a handful of intrepid souls keeps struggling to safeguard the big band tradition, and a few of them even achieve a certain measure of success. Let's hope that trombonist Steve Wiest is among the modest group of winners, as his debut album, Excalibur, certainly bears repeating--not literally, of ...


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