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Doug Lawrence & His Orchestra: Big Band Swing

Read "Big Band Swing" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2006

When one is employed as a sideman with the Count Basie Orchestra, as tenor saxophonist Doug Lawrence has been for several years, he learns a thing or two about Big Band Swing. Lawrence has also worked for Benny Goodman, Buck Clayton, Grover Mitchell, Frank Wess, Loren Schoenberg, Tony Corbiscello and the Smithsonian, DMP and Manhattan and Chicago Jazz Orchestras, among others. He has put those lessons to good use on this impressive new release by not one but two of ...