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The Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra: Cook the Books
by Jack Bowers
Someone help me out here. If big bands really are dead, as I've often heard, why is it that world-class ensembles like the Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra keep springing up like weeds almost everywhere one looks in this great country of ours? I'd never heard of the IJO--didn't even know they had a band there--so Cook the Books was most definitely a close encounter of the eye-opening (and jaw- dropping) kind.
Apparently, the IJO relies heavily on its stable of talented ...
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