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The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: A Year in the Life of the Band...

As the great Sinatra once sang, “It was a very good year...” While 2001 was hardly trouble-free for the Knoxville (TN) Jazz Orchestra, the band was able to raise enough money during that time to underwrite a two-week European tour. The KJO appeared at France’s Jazz à Vienne and Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival and was able to document those splendid performances by including excerpts from each of them on its latest album. Three selections -- “Angst,” “Skylark,” “Martha Stewart . ...
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