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"Speak" - New Fred Hess Big Band Album

Source: Fred Hess
August 7, 2012

SAXOPHONIST/COMPOSER FRED HESS RELEASES 3rd BIG BAND CD AS A LEADER: “SPEAK” (ALISON RECORDS 117), ON AUGUST 6th Big Band features John Fedchock, Ron Miles, John Gunther, Marc Sabatella, Peter Sommer, and Matt Wilson. “Highly original! Jazz entertainment at its best! This is an excellent CD collection of what contemporary big band music is doing, and its incredibly imaginative —Lee Prosser, JazzReview.com “All too often, we get so hung up on labels that we forget to listen to the music. ...

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Saxophonist/Composer Fred Hess Releases New Big Band CD As A Leader: "Into The Open" (Alison Records 116), On February 21

Source: Fred Hess
February 23, 2011

The Fred Hess Big Band is back. After releasing more than a dozen discs as the leader of small groups, Hess jumped into the big-band groove for the first time with his 2009 CD Hold On. That disc played to positive reviews and provided the music on the trailer for the highly- regarded Broadway play “God Of Carnage." As an award-winning composer, the big-band context proved to be a natural for the talented, Denver-based tenor saxophonist who also holds a ...

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