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Billy Byers

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Article: Album Review

David Larsen: The Peplowski Project

Read "The Peplowski Project" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The Peplowski Project was a labor of love for saxophonist David Larsen, a longtime admirer of fellow reedman Ken Peplowski who sits in with Larsen's impressive quartet on each of the album's eleven numbers, playing clarinet on six, tenor saxophone on five. As for Larsen, he plays his Gerry Mulligan-flavored baritone sax on ...

Album

Waka/Wazoo

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2022
Track listing:
CD 1

Your Mouth (Take 1); Big Swifty (Alternate Take); Minimal Art (Eat That Question—Version 1, Take 2); Blessed Relief (Outtake Version); Think It Over (The Grand Wazoo) (Outtake Version); For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) (Outtake Version); Waka/Jawaka (Outtake Version)

CD 2

Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus (Alternate Take); Eat That Question (Version 2, Alternate Take); Big Swifty (Alternate Mix); For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) (Alternate Mix); It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal (Alternate Mix); Waka/Jawaka (Alternate Mix); Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus (Alternate Mix); Eat That Question (Alternate Mix)

CD 3

For Love (I Come Your Friend); Psychosomatic Dung; Uncle Remus (Instrumental); Love; For Love (I Come Your Friend) (Basic Track, Take 1); Psychosomatic Dung (Basic Track, Take 2); Love (Basic Track, Take 1); Approximate (FZ Record Plant Mix); Winterland '72 Opening and Band Introductions; Little Dots

CD 4

America Drinks; Montana; Farther O'Blivion; Cosmik Debris; Chungàs Revenge.

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Article: Interview

David Finck: The Bass, Scatting Offenses, and the Back Hoe

Read "David Finck: The Bass, Scatting Offenses, and the Back Hoe" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


David Finck is not only a first-call bassist with a long resume of high-profile recordings and gigs, but he's one of the most versatile musicians on any instrument. Finck has been in the studio, touring, and/or sharing the world's greatest stages with everyone from Andre Previn to Ivan Lins, Woody Herman to Natalie Cole and Kenny ...

News: Recording

Billy Byers: Byers' Guide

Billy Byers: Byers' Guide

Of the many great post-war jazz arrangers, the one we probably know least about is Billy Byers. Despite his superlative credits as an orchestrator and player, very little has been written about him. Part of the problem is that from the late 1950s onward, Byers operated behind the scenes as a ghost. In this capacity, Byers ...

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Article: Live Review

Count Basie Orchestra at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

Read "Count Basie Orchestra at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts" reviewed by Patricia Myers


Count Basie Orchestra Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Scottsdale, Arizona December 19, 2015 The Count Basie Orchestra solidified its 80-year reputation for strong swingability, inventive solo segments and supreme section cohesion during two back-to-back concerts on a tour in support of the band's first-ever Christmas-theme album. But those seasonal charts ...

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Article: Album Review

Benny Bailey / Nashville Big Band: A Bird in the Hand

Read "A Bird in the Hand" reviewed by Jack Bowers


To accentuate the positive: A Bird in the Hand is Georgia-based drummer Ben Bailey's debut album as a big-band leader, and a splendid one it is, thanks to Bailey's ample talents and those of the Nashville Big Band. The recording arose from a chance meeting in 2011 when another well-known timekeeper, Duffy Jackson, traveled to from ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Swiss Jazz Orchestra: Sincerely Yours

Read "Swiss Jazz Orchestra: Sincerely Yours" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The world-class Swiss Jazz Orchestra produced the 2-CD set Sincerely Yours to mark its tenth anniversary in 2013. As is the SJO's custom, the nineteen tracks were taped during a series of stellar concert performances spanning those years, showcasing the orchestra's excellence as a unit and its roster of impressive soloists performing compositions and arrangements by ...

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Article: Big Band Report

"Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On

Read ""Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On" reviewed by Jack Bowers


With Betty sidelined by a bad cough, it was up to me to seek out local jazz events in February, and I managed to find a couple of pretty good ones, starting February 7 at the University of New Mexico's Keller Hall where SuperSax New Mexico performed for the third time in Albuquerque. As you may ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Lee Konitz: Four Classic Albums

Read "Lee Konitz: Four Classic Albums" reviewed by David Rickert


Besides being one of the few altoists that emerged in the 1950s that doesn't sound like Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz was a true musical adventurer whose explorations in free jazz, electronic instruments, and just all around anything goes sessions resulted in some of the most exciting music that came out of the fifties and beyond. His ...


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