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The Toronto Jazz Orchestra: 20

by Dan McClenaghan
June 30, 2018

The Toronto Jazz Orchestra, aka TJO, was created to perform music by the major jazz composers, like Miles Davis and his Miles Ahead (Columbia Records, 1958), the trumpeter's collaboration with Gil Evans, for one. With 20, the group celebrates the composition and arranging skills of its artistic director, Josh Grossman. With a twenty year history--hence the disc's title--TJO proves itself a top notch big band here, beginning with the Aaron Copland-esque “Georgie and Rose," with its sweeping backdrop ...