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The John Mahoney Big Band: In from Somewhere

by Jack Bowers
April 2, 2003

When all is said and done, no big band is better than the music it chooses to play, and that’s an area in which John Mahoney’s ensemble from the cradle of Jazz, New Orleans, has a leg up on many of its contemporaries.

Mahoney, coordinator of Jazz Studies at Loyola University, proves on In from Somewhere that he’s a writer with plenty to say, and it is his evocative charts that lend the album much of its potency and charm. ...