Jazz Articles about Gary Urwin

The Gary Urwin Jazz Orchestra: Perspectives

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2000

Once the staple of American music, big band jazz orchestras gave way to increasingly smaller ensembles throughout much of the fifties. Increasingly big bands found themselves in subordinate roles backing jazz singers, or relegated to playing orchestrated versions of pop songs. Ultimately, the logistics of maintaining such a large musical entity on a sustained basis proved too difficult to manage. In recent years though, there have been a number of attempts to revive the big band and preserve it's American ...