Jazz Articles

The Top Brass Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Melodika

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2001

This is my kind of big–band music — loose, swinging and straight as an arrow. Okay, so the Top Brass Orchestra from London’s West End isn’t always letter–perfect. What’s far more important is that this band of intrepid warriors is out there in the trenches, engaging in fierce hand–to–hand combat with the ever–growing forces of musical indecency, and has been since 1975. And when we say less–than–perfect we don’t mean to imply amateurish. Far from it. Top Brass is on ...