Monster Big Band

Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: "Year of the Tiger" a Reason to Celebrate

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
August 2, 2011

Fred Ho's Green Monster Big Band is something else, no doubt about it. Take some of the hottest players around (Bobby Zankel, Salim Washington, Stanton Davis, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, and on from there), put together wacky but convincing big band charts covering everything from “The Johnny Quest Theme," Michael Jackson, Hendrix, interesting original charts, what sounds like Chinese social realism, all with a seriousness that at the same time has a kind of irony that typically is part ...
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