Jeff Duff

Ed Wilson's Wacky Big Band: Live Featuring Jeff Duff

by Jack Bowers
January 2, 2003

Apparently, Australian trombonist Ed Wilson's big band comes in two delectable flavors, “regular" and “wacky." Having already reviewed a splendid new CD, Song for Joel, by the regular ensemble, we now turn our gaze toward the wackier group. Unlike its staid counterpart, the Wacky Big Band employs the services of a vocalist, Jeff Duff, on seven of the seventeen selections in this June '02 concert performance. The group also accommodates other vocals by Marty Hill ("Running Bear") and seventeen “very ...