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Bobby Shew with the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra: Easy to Love

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1998

As guest trumpeter Bobby Shew says in his liner notes to Easy to Love - and I certainly won't disagree - “the MYJO is hot!" Bobby adds that the Midlands-based ensemble is “one of the finest youth bands" with which he has ever performed. Again, no argument from this quarter. I've been an enthusiastic partisan since hearing the band's first recording a couple or three years ago (in concert) with alto saxophonist Lanny Morgan. Its second recording is in some ...