The Adventures in Jazz Orchestra

The Adventures in Jazz Orchestra: Celebrates Christmas

by Jack Bowers
March 3, 2003

Yes, I know the holiday season is over, but big-band salutes to that special time of year aren’t just for Christmas anymore -- especially when they’re as spectacular as this one! [He asserts, tacking on a seldom used exclamation mark to emphasize the point.]

The aptly named Adventures in Jazz Orchesta Celebrates Christmas with fourteen superlative charts by leader / trombonist Ted Blumenthal, handsomely recorded by Tom Jung and wonderfully performed by a sixteen-member ensemble that has ...