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The Northern Michigan University Lab Band: Good Ol' Days

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2000

One must crawl before he / she can walk, and Good Ol’ Days represents a shaky but important first few steps onto the Jazz playground for the Northern Michigan University Lab Band directed by Dr. John Cooper and accompanied by special guest Clark Terry on this April ’98 concert date. The band loses its balance quite often but always picks itself up, gathers its wits about it and takes another valiant step, sometimes barely standing upright but determined to keep ...