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Album Review

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Tidal Currents: East Meets West

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When it comes to appraising contemporary big bands, Canada's Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is on equal footing with the best of them. For its seventh album, Tidal Currents, the WJO has engaged two of that country's leading jazz composers, Jill Townsend and Christine Jensen, to present in musical terms impressions of places that have a special meaning to them, in particular the bodies of water that inspired them in their younger years and up to this point in time.

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Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Voices: A Musical Heritage

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No matter where in the world one looks, there is musical history worth exploring and celebrating--which is what the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra sets out to affirm on its sixth album, Voices: A Musical Heritage. Winnipeg is the capital of Canada's Manitoba Province, and Voices pays tribute to the area's rich and expansive musical fabric via a series of eight compositions designed to exemplify some of Manitoba's far-flung heritage: First Nations, Metis, Ukrainian, Jewish, Chilean, Brazilian, Nigerian and Icelandic.

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Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Twisting Ways

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For the better part of its latest recording, Twisting Ways, Canada's Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra may as well scrub the word “Jazz" from its name, as the music mostly bears scant resemblance to that time-honored genre. The overall mood may best be described as funereal, epitomizing themes of a mostly exploratory nature, interrupted all too seldom by passages that are more akin to the essence of traditional jazz. As the composers, David Braid and Philippe Cote, are well-known and well-respected in ...

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Derrick Gardner & The Big dig! Band: Still I Rise

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Trumpeter Derrick Gardner, a Chicagoan who has performed around the world with a who's who of jazz luminaries from Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Foster to Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett and Harry Connick Jr., to name only a few, traveled to Winnipeg, Canada, to assemble and record his Big Dig! Band, several sizes removed from Gardner's sextet, The Jazz Prophets, a working group since it was formed in New York City in 1991. Gardner not only shines as trumpet ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Tidal Currents: East...

Chronograph Records
2024

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Voices: A Musical...

Self Produced
2022

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We Want All the Same...

Chronograph Records
2021

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Still I Rise

Impact Jazz
2020

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Rock Skipping Under the Half Moon

From: Tidal Currents: East Meets West
By Joel Green

Oriri

From: Voices: A Musical Heritage
By Joel Green

Each Hidden Joy

From: We Want All the Same Things
By Joel Green

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