Jazz Articles about Ed Puddick Big Band

Ed Puddick Big Band: Guys and Dolls

by Robert J. Robbins
December 8, 2010

In the hands of the twenty-something bandleader and arranger Ed Puddick and his equally young, London-based seventeen-piece ensemble, Frank Loesser's classic Broadway score joins the ranks of those which have been adapted for big band (Stan Kenton's West Side Story, Les Brown's South Pacific, and Ted Heath's The Sound of Music all come to mind). Puddick's writing combines the lush voicings of Gil Evans' arrangements for the late 1940s Claude Thornhill band with Bill Holman's linear counterpoint, Shorty Rogers' Basie-inspired ...