Jazz Articles about Susana Baca

David Berger Jazz Orchestra: Colorizing the Classics: David Berger's Tribute to Harry Warren

by Tom Greenland
March 5, 2010

Arranger/recomposer David Berger's music is likely to prompt mixed reactions for its mixing of traditional values with creative originality, somewhat akin to Ted Turner's colorizing of classic black and white films. Colorizing the Classics is a big-band follow-up to I Had the Craziest Dream (Such Sweet Thunder, 2008), an octet outing also championing the works of Harry Warren, an important but under-recognized composer of movie musicals. Digging through the Warren family archives, Berger discovered a trove of ...