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Keith Ellis and the Sessions Big Band: Softly as in a Morning Sunrise / Tribute

Read "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise / Tribute" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2003

I don’t ordinarily review discs I have to buy, but April has been an especially slow month for new big- band releases, enabling me to bend the rule temporarily and salute the late trombonist Keith Ellis, who led the Missouri-based Sessions Big Band and died only a few days after the most recent of these albums was recorded. I don’t know if the inclusion of Bob Mintzer’s composition “Tribute” and the album’s title were superimposed or coincidental, but they are ...