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The Majestic Jazz Orchestra: Axiom Asunder
by Jack Bowers
The Majestic Jazz Orchestra Axiom Asunder Carlisle Compositions 2007
The Majestic Jazz Orchestra isn't trying to sound self-important--its grandiloquent name actually honors the newly renovated Majestic Theatre in the orchestra's home base of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The album's title, on the other hand, might be construed, absent any argument to the contrary, as pretentious. It does, however, epitomize what is being presented, namely “four episodes for jazz orchestra, narrator, dance ensemble and choir.
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