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Instrument: Trombone
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by Jack Bowers
Even though the odds are heavily against them, a handful of intrepid souls keeps struggling to safeguard the big band tradition, and a few of them even achieve a certain measure of success. Let's hope that trombonist Steve Wiest is among the modest group of winners, as his debut album, Excalibur, certainly bears repeating--not literally, of course, but at least in spirit.
Wiest, who cut his big band teeth with Maynard Ferguson about a quarter century ago and later earned ...
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