Results for "Phil Bancroft"

Phil Bancroft

Born: January 29, 1967

Jack Cortner Big Band / Peter Hand Big Band / Chicago Jazz Philharmonic

by Jack Bowers
September 2, 2009

Jack Cortner Big Band Sound Check Jazzed Media 2009 For someone who waited so long before taking his first swings as leader of his own big band, Jack Cortner shows again on Sound Check, the band's second impressive recording in as many years, that he's got game. He's ...

Colin Steele: Stramash

by Chris May
July 6, 2009

According to Scottish trumpeter Colin Steele's sleeve notes, a life-threatening quantity of whisky was consumed during the composing process for Stramash, an exuberant bacchanal of jazz and Scottish folk music. Steele took himself away to the island of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland, to focus on the writing and to embrace, frequently and enthusiastically, ...