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Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra: Sight Readin', Baby!
by Jack Bowers
Remember those boisterous, heavy–swinging in–concert albums from the late ’50s–early ’60s by the Terry Gibbs Dream Band? I was reminded of them while listening to Sight Readin’, Baby! by Vaughn Wiester’s Columbus, Ohio–based Famous Jazz Orchestra. Not that Wiester’s cobbled–together orchestra is as talented (or even as famous) as Terry’s (not many bands can outclass such sidemen as Richie Kamuca, Bill Perkins, Jack Nimitz, Al Porcino, Conte Candoli, Stu Williamson, Frank Rosolino, Mel Lewis and the others in Gibbs’ ensemble), ...
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