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Texas Christian University Jazz Ensemble: When You're Smiling

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 1998

This is the second recording I've heard by TCU's Jazz Ensemble. The first, while generally impressive, had one prominent and, in the end, unbearable flaw: the engineer, who must have been in a hurry to go home, insisted on clipping the final note of every number before the last overtones had faded, which is exceedingly frustrating to one who would like to hear and appreciate ALL the music. Happily, the engineer on this more recent disc doesn't throw the switch ...