Jazz Articles about The Texas Instruments Jazz Orchestra

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The Texas Instruments Jazz Band: AlgoRhythm

by Jack Bowers
January 19, 2007

A big band album that runs for less than 35 minutes and includes five vocal tracks. What can one say about that? Well, let's begin by accentuating the positive: the Texas Instruments Jazz Band, which marks its twentieth anniversary with AlgoRhythm, is a fairly decent ensemble, and obviously invested considerable time and energy in producing the album. The four instrumental tracks are actually pretty likable.

So much for the positive. Not to knock Judy Hester, but even though she's an ...

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The Texas Instruments Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Bytes -- Version 1.0

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2001

Another Jekyll–and–Hyde big band — but these gentlemen (and one lady) make no attempt to “hyde” the fact that they are (or in some cases were) engineers and technicians by day at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Jazz musicians (amateur division) at night. The story of the TI Jazz Band began in 1986 when a summer co–op student at TI placed an ad in the company newspaper that simply read “Jazz musicians wanted.” Jazz musicians he got, and about three weeks ...