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Album Review

Jim Kerl's Swing Session Big Band: With Thanks to My Friends

Read "With Thanks to My Friends" reviewed by Jack Bowers


To the average listener, there are basically three kinds of big bands: those that are as good as advertised, those that aren't, and those that are much better than expected. Trumpeter Jim Kerl's Swing Session Big Band definitely belongs in the last category.

The reasons are clear. First, the musicianship on the band's inaugural album, With Thanks to my Friends, is beyond reproach; second, the charts, more than half of which were written by the incomparable Tom Kubis, are excellent; ...


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