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Jump City Jazz Orchestra: Live at Chris' Jazz Cafe
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 ...
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