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Boulevard Big Band: Live at Harlings Upstairs

Read "Live at Harlings Upstairs" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
September 14, 2007

Michael McGraw's Kansas City Boulevard Big Band has, since 1989, been a fixture in the area's jazz community, releasing three previous albums and earning both popular and critical acclaim. Live at Harlings Upstairs, which removes the “Kansas City from the band's name, features Southern California's renowned tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb.

Trumpeter and bandleader McGraw decided to tape two live sessions recorded in February 2006 at the famed jazz club Harlings, in Kansas City, for this album. It contains ...

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Album Review

Boulevard Big Band: Live at Harlings Upstairs

Read "Live at Harlings Upstairs" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 16, 2007

Although it has discarded the words “Kansas City that once preceded its name, the Boulevard Big Band is indeed the same hard-swinging group from America's heartland that has recorded three other superlative albums since it was formed in 1989. And if I were writing a promo ad for Live at Harlings Upstairs, its first-ever live recording, it would begin something like this: “New and improved formula! Now with Pete Christlieb added for extra strength and bonding power!

Christlieb, one of ...