Jazz Articles about Michael Philip Mossman

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Introducing the New Jersey All-State Jazz Ensemble and Choir

by Sanford Josephson
November 7, 2026

"Ordinary People," a ballad about an up-and-down romance, was released as the second single on John Legend's 2004 inaugural album, Get Lifted (Columbia). It became his signature song. On Friday evening, November 13, the New Jersey High School All-State Jazz Ensemble and Choir will perform Michael Philip Mossman's arrangement of it at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center as part of the TD James Moody Jazz Festival.“This a rare opportunity to collaborate with both big band and jazz ...

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Hendrik Meurkens and the WDR Big Band: Samba Jazz Odyssey

by Jack Bowers
October 16, 2022

One could probably count the number of big-band albums featuring a harmonica player on the fingers of one hand and leave some unused. Only one other springs to mind here, and it was released so many years ago that the names have long since been forgotten. And so it is indeed a genuine pleasure to hear the virtuosic Hendrik Meurkens performing with one of the world's foremost large ensembles, Cologne, Germany's exemplary WDR Big Band. More than ...

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Hendrik Meurkens: Samba Jazz Odyssey

by Edward Blanco
June 18, 2022

One of the leading proponents of bossa nova and samba in the jazz world, New York-based chromatic harmonica virtuoso Hendrik Meurkens continues his love affair with Brazilian music with the big band sound of Samba Jazz Odyssey, his seventh release on the ZOHO record label. This time Meurkens is joined by the world-renown WDR Big Band from Cologne, Germany where the maestro and ensemble record nine tracks and seven of his most popular compositions arranged by Grammy-nominated conductor Michael Phillip ...

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Michael Phillip Mossman: The Orisha Suite

by Javier AQ Ortiz
July 13, 2004

The Orisha Suite is inspired by some of the Afro-Cuban deities--or orishas--from Lucumí religious lore, with the exception of the soulful, funky, danceable and exquisite opening cut, which is dedicated to--and inspired by--the daughter of the date's leader. As such, nonetheless, the recording is a sonic interpretation of some of the theological tenets associated with this particular religious phenomenon so richly endowed with musical potential.

Michael Phillip Mossman has had the opportunity to learn from seminal musical practitioners ...

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Michael Philip Mossman Sextet: Mama Soho

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

Although this is trumpeter Michael Philip Mossman’s second release as leader on the Swiss TCB label, I’d previously heard him only in the confines of big–band recordings, and this was the first chance to listen to him “stretch” with his own smaller group. Stretch he can, and stretch he does in a buoyant and colorful session that, while not billed as “Latin Jazz,” could well be, as all compositions (except for the standard “All the Things You Are”) and arrangements ...