Red Bank Jazz Orchestra

Red Bank Jazz Orchestra: Red Bank Jazz Orchestra: Strike Up The Band!

by Craig Dowd
June 30, 2012

With the sheer number of ghost bands and regional orchestras currently active in America, many of which hold fast to the grave of sophisticated pre-war swing, the supply of tributes to our finest composers is never in jeopardy of being exhausted. But volume breeds vapidness, and most offerings to this province, with their prosaic interpretations and lack of emotional fluency, are found wanting. They aspire to such sweet thunder but give to the memory of Duke Ellington and Count Basie ...