Jazz Articles

The Whitworth College Jazz Ensembles: 1998-99, 1999-2000: Blues in My Shoes

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2002

Our second encounter with the award–winning Whitworth College Jazz Ensemble from lovely Spokane, WA, leaves no doubt as to why the school’s Jazz Studies program has been praised by Jazz Times magazine as one of the country’s best. The ensemble’s fourth album, Blues in My Shoes, encompasses nearly sixty–nine minutes of formidable big–band Jazz, ably supervised by director Dan Keberle and played to a fare–thee–well by his earnest young scholars. Two ensembles are actually involved, with the first six tracks ...