Wally Dunbar Jazz Eleven

The Wally Dunbar Jazz Eleven: Everything in Time

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2001

At a time when musical excellence is too often measured by its decibel level, there remains a handful of composer / arrangers who prefer subtlety to bombast, gracefulness to brute strength. On the West Coast, for example, one can single out master craftsman Tom Talbert, whose eastern counterpart appears to be Canadian–born, New York–schooled Wally Dunbar, a former trumpet player in Woody Herman’s band who has worked for many years as a music preparation specialist for concerts and Broadway shows, ...