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The Nottingham Jazz Orchestra: Sixteen Men Swinging!
by Jack Bowers
A pleasant, unassuming album of (mostly) familiar songs by a generally admirable rehearsal band from Nottingham, England, which is best known as the neighborhood in which Robin Hood made his name. The NJO, formed in 1969, recorded one previous album, in 1971, before disbanding for some twenty years. It was re–formed in 1995 with pianist Tommy Saville as leader and three members of the original ensemble — trumpeter Pete Wilde, trombonist Mick Chilton and saxophonist John Marshall — comprising the ...
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