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Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra: It's About Time / Scallywag / Slammin' Joe's

by Jack Bowers
July 19, 2013

Delightful discourses from Down Under, courtesy of three high-flying albums by trombonist Daryl McKenzie's intrepid Jazz Orchestra from the merry old land of Oz (more widely known as Australia). The first, It's About Time, was recorded in 2007, the others (Scallywag, Slammin' Joe's) in 2010, when the band was roughly eight years old. Yes, big-band jazz is alive and well in places as far removed from its birthplace as Melbourne, and McKenzie offers irrefutable evidence not only to prove the ...