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David Murray Big Band @ Birdland, NYC, from Jan. 18 to 22

Source: Murray
January 11, 2011

From January 18 to 22 at 8.30pm and 11.00pm Reservations: birdlandjazz.com or 212-581-3080 David Murray began writing for big band in 1978 in preparation for a concert at the Public Theatre in New York. At this time Loft Jazz was in full swing and David had surfaced as one of the progenitors of the new phenomena that had captured the downtown music scene.The compositions were a more complex and extended version of many trio and quartet songs that ...

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