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The Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra: Well Seasoned

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2000

If anyone is apprehensive about the future of big'band Jazz, he or she need only look eastward toward Asia, Europe and the British Isles to lay any such fears to rest. Even though big bands remain very much alive in the good old US of A, overseas is where it's really happenin' these days. As one who keeps his finger on that pulse, I can assure you that the big'band scene 'over there' is livelier and more expansive than ever. ...