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Marc Jordan: Waiting for the Sun to Rise

Read "Waiting for the Sun to Rise" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
July 8, 2023

Occasionally one comes across a singer-songwriter-musician and wonders just how he or she has managed to evade detection. In this case, the sense of living under a rock is only somewhat assuaged by consulting the artist's website (www.marcjordan.com) only to land on a page entitled “Marc Who?" The text describes Marc Jordan as a singer, songwriter, composer and artist whose songs have been on 35 million CDs. Jordan, who is the proverbial “overnight success," has been at it for over ...

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Album Review

Gap Mangione Big Band: Planet Gap

Read "Planet Gap" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1998

My guess would be that most of those who are reading this (if any are, that is) have heard of trumpeter Chuck Mangione. What some may not know is that Chuck has a piano-playing brother, Gap, and that Gap has his own thundering big band. While the notion hardly qualifies as a scientific survey, one may readily infer from the music presented on the band's initial release, Planet Gap, that at least 19 excessively happy people call that planet home. ...