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University of Nevada-Las Vegas: Let The Good Times Roll

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by Jack Bowers
April 3, 2025

If energy and enthusiasm were enough to earn a prize, the University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1 would surely have one in hand to salute its newest album, Let the Good Times Roll, a textbook lesson in buoyant and heavy-duty big-band jazz. While co-directors Dave Loeb and Nathan Tanouye enlist no fewer than seven talented guest artists to lend a hand, several of the album's highlights take place when none of its guests is in the lineup. To ...

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University of Nevada-Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble: Coloring Outside the Lines

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 1999

The third recording by the uncommonly proficient UNLV Jazz Ensemble, and first under its new director, Rocky Winslow, gives an indication of the direction in which the program is moving. All but one of the eight selections were either written or arranged by students; the exception is Kenny Wheeler’s breezy toe–tapper, “Miold Man,” scored by pianist Stefan Karlsson who teaches arranging to the others and provides a splendid example here of how to lock a big band in an admirably ...