John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra presents ‘The Toronto Sound’

John MacLeod & His Rex Hotel Orchestra: Our Second Set

by Jack Bowers
September 23, 2016

Somewhere, Rob McConnell must be smiling broadly. McConnell, once the peerless leader of Canada's flagship jazz ensemble, the Boss Brass, is no longer with us, sad to say, but the Brass lives on in the guise of trumpeter John MacLeod's superlative Rex Hotel Orchestra, which mirrors McConnell's band from its skin-tight section work and well-drawn charts right down to the lustrous French horn section, a striking signature of the Boss Brass. As noted in a review of ...