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The Aylesbury Music Centre Dance Band: Beyond the Limit

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2000

After listening to several selections on Beyond the Limit, the Aylesbury Music Centre’s fourth recording (and second on disc), then glancing at the sleevenote, my first thought was that the information therein must have been misprinted — it says the average age of AMC band–members on Limit is sixteen! Oh come on, do you really expect anyone to believe that 16–year–olds can play big–band Jazz as flawlessly as this? What’s next, diaper changes between the chorus and bridge? I’ve heard ...