Results for "Dennis Noday"

Dennis Noday

Plays the Music of Lee Harris: The Brite Side

By Horizons Jazz Orchestra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Red Apple Sweet; Pure Imagination; After You’ve Gone, Finally; The Runner; Fourth Dimension; The Brite Side; The Sound; Summertime; Maria; ‘A’ Train Bossa.

Horizons Jazz Orchestra: Plays the Music of Lee Harris: The Brite Side

by Jack Bowers
September 21, 2020

One question that springs to mind when listening to The Brite Side, a tantalizing new CD by the South Florida-based Horizons Jazz Orchestra, is: who is Lee Harris? As it turns out, Harris was a composer, arranger and baritone saxophonist who teamed with trumpeter Dennis Noday a few years back to co-found an ensemble they named ...

Horizons Jazz Orchestra: Plays the Music of Lee Harris: The Brite Side

by Edward Blanco
April 16, 2020

The south Florida-based Horizons Jazz Orchestra (HJO), present their debut album, The Brite Side, performing five original Lee Harris compositions and also five standards sporting fresh new Harris arrangements, for a compelling package of big band music that is a pleasure to hear. Founded in 2016 by Stan Kenton alumnus Dennis Noday, and former baritone saxophonist ...

Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra: Flyin' Through Florida

by Jack Bowers
August 22, 2018

The number of jazz-centered big bands “on the road" these days can be counted on the fingers of one hand with a digit or two to spare. The Glenn Miller and Count Basie orchestras remain randomly active, the Duke Ellington and Woody Herman progeny somewhat less so. As for the rest . . . R.I.P. Stan ...

Lasse Lindgren Big Constellation: The Unrecorded Fox

by Jack Bowers
July 3, 2018

When it comes to playing high-note jazz trumpet, the late great Maynard Ferguson was, is and perhaps always will be the standard to which every specialist in that limited field aspires. Yes, there have been assorted claimants--Cat Anderson, Ziggy Elman, Jon Faddis, Dave Stahl, Eric Miyashiro, Wayne Bergeron and Dennis Noday spring to mind--but no one ...

The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra: Storming Through the South

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2016

First, three hearty cheers and a laurel wreath for trumpeter Mike Vax who has kept the splendid Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra together (with some inescapable changes in personnel, not to mention name) for twenty-five years, supervised no less than eighteen annual road tours and produced half a dozen in-concert albums, the most recent of which, Storming ...

Phil Woods / Stan Kenton / The Les Hooper Band

by Jack Bowers
June 3, 2010

Phil Woods / DePaul University Jazz Ensemble Solitude Jazzed Media 2010 Not to underplay the title, but Solitude, from alto saxophone master Phil Woods and the splendid DePaul University Jazz Ensemble, embodies far more than the sort of serenity it implies. In fact, Woods is as animated and ...

Maynard Ferguson Birthday Bash @ Chris' Jazz Cafe (Philadelphia) on May 1

April 5, 2010

Maynard Ferguson Birthday Bash! Featuring Maynard Ferguson alumni: Denis DiBlasio, Reggie Watkins and Dennis Noday at Chris' Jazz Cafe on May 1. Come experience the high energy big band jazz that only Maynard Ferguson and his band could deliver on what would have been his 82nd birthday. The alumni will be backed by the John Hoey ...

Mike Vax Big Band / Dave Siebels / Phil Woods / London Horn Sound

by Jack Bowers
May 4, 2009

Mike Vax Big Band Sounds from the Road Summit Records 2009 As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby entertained millions with their “road" movies in the 1940s, so the Mike Vax Big Band has its own “road show," arguably as entertaining but playing to much smaller audiences than Hope ...