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The Texas Instruments Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Bytes -- Version 1.0
by Jack Bowers
Another Jekyll–and–Hyde big band — but these gentlemen (and one lady) make no attempt to “hyde” the fact that they are (or in some cases were) engineers and technicians by day at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Jazz musicians (amateur division) at night. The story of the TI Jazz Band began in 1986 when a summer co–op student at TI placed an ad in the company newspaper that simply read “Jazz musicians wanted.” Jazz musicians he got, and about three weeks ...
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