Jazz Articles about John Burnett

John Burnett & His Orch. Featuring Buddy DeFranco: Swingin' in the Windy City

by Dave Nathan
January 1, 2001

P>John Burnett has a day job as a jazz broadcaster for FM station WDCB in Chicago. In 1999 he put together a very fine orchestra made up of top notch Chicago musicians. Many of them have had considerable big band experience with Glenn Miller's, Barrett Deems and others. Several members also play in another Windy City-based aggregation, Lenny King's Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orch.

For this maiden album, Burnett has scored a coup by getting one of the true icons of ...