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Full Spectrum Jazz: Rayna's Dance

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2003

A second helping of invigorating big-band jazz from the marvelous San Francisco-based ensemble Full Spectrum. Although the liner notes affirm that most (if not all) of FSJ’s members are full-time professionals in Silicon Valley’s high-tech corporations and part-time musicians who simply play for fun, you may have trouble believing that after hearing them perform on Rayna’s Dance, the ensemble’s second exemplary album.

As I wrote in reviewing FSJ’s earlier venture, the appropriately titled First Time Out, “there isn’t the least ...