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Pierce College

Suiteness

By Pierce College

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: Executive Suite; Fantasia for Alto Sax (Ballade, Latino, Scherzo); Channel One Suite; Trilogy to the Drink (A Little Minor Booze, No Harmful Slide Effects, Boilermaker); Greasy Sack Blues; Forgotten Dreams (77:40).

Pierce College Jazz Ensemble: Suiteness

by Jack Bowers
December 3, 2006

The name of this superlative album by the Pierce College Jazz Ensemble, clearly a play on words, refers to the fact that the ensemble has chosen to perform four suites for orchestra, one of which became a jazz classic in its primary incarnation, a second whose three components are familiar but not as a suite, and ...

The Weekly Dance / Pierced Ears

By Pierce College

Label: PCJE
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Weekly Dance

The Pierce College Jazz Ensemble: The Weekly Dance / Pierced Ears

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2002

I first heard the Pierce College Jazz Ensemble at the IAJE Conference in Long Beach, CA, in January 2001 and was quite impressed, enough so to ask director Norm Wallen to keep me in mind for reviews if the ensemble were to record any CDs. After sending a master of the band’s performance at the conference, ...