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Virginia Commonwealth University Jazz: It Could Happen to You
by Jack Bowers
This is the fifth album produced by the twenty-two-year-old Jazz Studies program at Richmond’s Virginia Commonwealth University, the first under the direction of Antonio Garcia, who came to VCU from Northwestern University a couple of years ago. The award-winning Jazz Orchestra I, which performs on the first eight of the album’s dozen tracks, plays well as a unit and the soloists are fairly respectable. But there’s no denying the far more potent electrical charge generated by guest trumpeter Brian Lynch ...
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