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Rich Wetzel's Groovin' Higher Orchestra: Live at Jazzbones

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2002

More swinging big--band Jazz from Washington State. On the heels of Kevin Seeley's superb Emerald City ensemble from Seattle (Alive and Swingin,', SMP 0004) comes this two--disc set by trumpeter Rich Wetzel's far less polished but no less earnest Groovin' Higher Orchestra, recorded in concert at Jazzbones in Tacoma, where the band has been performing for standing--room--only audiences.As Wetzel writes in the liner notes, the concert was transcribed “exactly as it happened, the way Jazz was meant to ...