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The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: Trench Heroes / Monday in the City

Read "Trench Heroes / Monday in the City" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2002

These two albums, recorded three years apart, provide at least a cursory glance at the continuing development of San Francisco’s aptly named Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. Trench Heroes was taped in ’98 during a “road gig” at Yoshi’s nightclub across the Bay bridge in Oakland, CA, Monday in the City last December on the orchestra’s “home field,” Jazz at Pearl’s, in San Francisco’s popular North Beach district. The CJO had changed directors in the interim, with Alex Budman replacing charter member ...