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Stadtskapelle Wertingen / Papa Lips Big Band: Dynamik / Untitled

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 1999

As near as I can determine from the German notes, the Allgäu–Schwäbischer Musikbund is a marching band associated with Stadtkapelle Wertingen, one of Germany’s many first–class music schools, while the Papa Lips Big Band is apparently its Jazz orchestra counterpart. On Dynamik, the larger ensemble performs a number of pieces for winds and marching band before the smaller ”big band” takes a swing at some Jazzier material including Steve Allen’s “This Could Be the Start of Something,” Don Menza’s “Groovin’ ...