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Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra: Yesterdays Today

Read "Yesterdays Today" reviewed by Jack Bowers


This is the ninth recording by Great Britain’s well–endowed Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra, and as is always the case, director Ian Darrington’s troops are lean, mean and ready to rumble, as one can readily hear from the first buoyant phrases of Mike Tomaro’s rollicking “Blues for Hire.” While it’s difficult to take issue with anything WYJO does, the way in which the ensemble was recorded is another matter altogether. The disc embodies a recessed and reverberant “concert hall” quality that ...


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