Michael Burish

OSU Jazz Orchestra: Angular Tuesday

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2024

The splendid Oklahoma State University Jazz Orchestra seldom pauses for breath on Angular Tuesday, its third album under director Tommy Poole. The ensemble enters as though shot from a cannon on Don Menza's frenzied “Time Check," and keeps on swinging and swaying through a lively program that encompasses sunlit compositions by Maria Schneider, Bob Mintzer, Thad Jones, Don Grolnick, Matt Catingub and Matt Harris, plus the animated and funky title selection, written by saxophonist Matthew Howell in 2021, his senior ...