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Royce Campbell/Vosbein Magee Big Band: Vagabond
by Jack Bowers
Royce Campbell has an awesome and enviable worldwide reputation--as a jazz guitarist. Who knew he could also write this well, and for a big band, no less. All but one of the eleven engaging songs on Vagabond were composed by Campbell, and every one of the impressive charts was penned by his cousin and mentor, the late Carroll DeCamp, who had done the same for Stan Kenton and Larry Elgart, among others. Campbell, who was born in ...
Continue ReadingTom Lundberg: Prime Time
by Jack Bowers
It was only a matter of (prime) time until someone decided to lend a jazz spin to a number of nighttime television's most popular and enduring theme songs. The number here is twelve, the someone in question trombonist Tom Lundberg who leads a trim and versatile octet through its paces on the suitably named Prime Time, performing generally well-drawn arrangements by Terry Vosbein. While Vosbein does the best he can, reupholstering these themes is no easy task, ...
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