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Dan Kaneyuki

Hollywood Christmas

By Richard Williams

Label: Self-Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year; The Holiday Season; Happy Holiday; The Christmas Song; White Christmas; Santa Claus is Coming to Town; Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree; Here Comes Santa Claus; Jingle Bells; Frosty the Snowman; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; Winter Wonderland; Let it Snow; Up on the Housetop; There's No Place Like Home; I'll Be Home For Christmas; Coming Home; Somewhere in My Memory; Someway, Somehow.

Brazil

By Mike Barone

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Brazil; Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic; Animation; Big Bear; No Got Rhythm; Jacobs Ladder; Rhubarb; My Heart Belongs to Daddy; Nathan Nysore; Both Sides of the Coin; Mellow Bug Riffs.

Mike Barone Big Band: Brazil

by Jack Bowers
October 29, 2020

Brazil doesn't signify that the venerable California-based composer / arranger Mike Barone has gone Latin; it simply means that “Brazil" is the opening number and the name Barone chose for the latest in his long-running series of remarkable big-band albums. No matter, as a Barone recording by any other name would be every inch as inspired ...

Nick DePinna: Nexus Music Vol. 1

by Jack Bowers
June 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based composer-trombonist Nick DePinna dips his toes warily into the big-band pond on Nexus Music Vol. 1, a concise yet largely impressive glimpse at contemporary motifs from a large-group perspective. The album encompasses only three songs whose total playing time is a brief twenty minutes, about one-quarter the maximum length of a Compact Disc.

Elliot Deutsch: Make Big Band Great Again

by Jack Bowers
December 4, 2018

Bandleader Elliot Deutsch has come up with a clever angle for his third CD, complete with obligatory red baseball cap and “Make Big Band Great Again" logo. Song titles are precocious too: “Fake News," “Repeal and Replace," “The Great Wall," sandwiched between “America the Beautiful" and an ambivalent ode to his Los Angeles home, “Pink Sunset ...

Andrew Neu: The Big Band Side of Andrew Neu

by Jack Bowers
February 27, 2018

No matter where The Big Band Side of Andrew Neu has been hiding, it's a real kick and genuine pleasure to have it in plain sight and within earshot, especially as Neu has at his side a number of the Los Angeles area's most accomplished sidemen and no less than seven superlative guest artists who lend ...