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Rodger Fox with the New Zealand School of Music Big Band: Rodger Fox Presents Ray Woolf

Read "Rodger Fox Presents Ray Woolf" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 20, 2007

Here's a splendid album from New Zealand that works two ways: as singer-with-big-band or big-band-with-singer. The singer is Ray Woolf, described by producer/music director/trombonist Rodger Fox as that country's “consummate performer/vocalist/entertainer. The band is from the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, ably conducted by the selfsame Rodger Fox.

Woolf definitely lives up to his billing, belting out a dozen songs from the Great American Songbook and elsewhere in the manner of a Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin or Mel ...