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Fernando Ferrarone: Beautifully Different

Read "Beautifully Different" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 12, 2026

It is one thing to be a multi-instrumentalist; it is quite another to play two or more instruments so remarkably well that heads start to turn and listeners ask, “Who was that?“ Florida-based Fernando Ferrarone is in the latter class. He plays electrifying alto saxophone on the first and last tracks of Beautifully Different, impeccable trumpet on everything in between. And Ferrarone does so while leading a quintet that consists of American pianist Russell Kranes and three sidemen ...

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Horizons Jazz Orchestra: Plays the Music of Lee Harris: The Brite Side

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by Jack Bowers
September 21, 2020

One question that springs to mind when listening to The Brite Side, a tantalizing new CD by the South Florida-based Horizons Jazz Orchestra, is: who is Lee Harris? As it turns out, Harris was a composer, arranger and baritone saxophonist who teamed with trumpeter Dennis Noday a few years back to co-found an ensemble they named Superband. Shortly afterward, Harris became ill and was unable to continue, so Noday and Superband's lead trombonist, Michael Balogh, renamed the ensemble the Horizons ...

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Horizons Jazz Orchestra: Plays the Music of Lee Harris: The Brite Side

Read "Plays the Music of Lee Harris: The Brite Side" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
April 16, 2020

The south Florida-based Horizons Jazz Orchestra (HJO), present their debut album, The Brite Side, performing five original Lee Harris compositions and also five standards sporting fresh new Harris arrangements, for a compelling package of big band music that is a pleasure to hear. Founded in 2016 by Stan Kenton alumnus Dennis Noday, and former baritone saxophonist & arranger (in the New York studio scene during the 1960s) Lee Harris, the group was known as the Superband before morphing into its ...