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Lou Caputo Not So Big Band: Uh Oh!

by Jack Bowers
June 30, 2016

Uh Oh! is the third recording by multi-instrumentalist Lou Caputo's Not So Big Band, which has been performing in New York City for more than a decade. The band's name epitomizes its relatively spare front line: two trumpets, three saxophones, trombone and tuba. There is, on the other hand, nothing spare about the band's ability to sound like a credibly larger ensemble, nor its propensity to swing through a dozen well-framed charts based for the most part on jazz compositions ...

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Lou Caputo: Urban Still Life

Read "Urban Still Life" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 25, 2003

Urban Still Life is New York to the core with a cast of the City's main characters. Multi-reedist Lou Caputo (a NYC name, for sure) has put together a big-little band and fueled it with engaging arrangements (by band members) of jazz standards. In this respect, this recording is not unlike Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool in that both recordings emphasize the role of the arranger in the preparation of charts for larger jazz orchestras. In fact, included here ...