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by Jack Bowers
The subtitle of this trim and engaging album by the Philadelphia-based Jump City Jazz Orchestra is “A Tribute to Maynard Ferguson, and seven of its eighteen selections are from the Ferguson band's library including one of the late high-note maestro's most crowd-pleasing showcases, “Danny Boy, admirably performed here by guest trumpeter Matt Gallagher.
Also from the Ferguson songbook come Joe Zawinul's “Birdland, Bill Holman's “Dancin' Nitely, Slide Hampton's “Frame for the Blues, Mike Abene's “Knarf, Willie Maiden's ballad “Bittersweet, and ...
read moreJump City Jazz Orchestra: Night and Day
by Jack Bowers
I know nothing about the Pennsylvania-based Jump City Jazz Orchestra except the obvious: this is an ensemble whose mission is to entertain, created in the image and following the lead of the storied dance bands of the Swing Era--Miller, Goodman, the Dorsey brothers, Harry James, Charlie Barnet, Ray Anthony and other kindred souls.
The question thus becomes, how well does it succeed? The answer, based on this overview of the band's work, is quite well indeed. In other words, if ...
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