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The RIAS Big Band Berlin: Bach Brandt New
by Jack Bowers
Who’d have suspected that Johann Sebastian Bach, who died more than 250 years ago, would be making such a strong comback in the twentyfirst century, and in a Jazz context, no less? But here we have the venerated maestro, resurrected first in Bach 2000, an excellent album by David Matthews and the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, and now in Bach Brandt New, in which Germany’s worldclass RIAS Big Band performs marvelous new arrangements of half a dozen Bach themes by the ...
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