Florida Community College

The Florida Community College Jazz Ensemble 1: Jazz from 11901 Beach Boulevard

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2003

After listening to this splendid album by the Florida Community College Jazz Ensemble 1, I regret more than ever having missed the band’s performance at this year’s IAJE conference in Toronto -- but one can’t hear everything. On a brighter note, I was at least able to “take the ensemble home” to appreciate at my leisure the marvelous job director Matt Vance has done to uphold the Jacksonville school’s twenty-three-year record of excellence in Jazz Studies.

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