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by Jack Bowers
I don't know if this is composer/arranger/bandleader Anita Brown's first album, but if it is, she couldn't have arranged a more impressive coming-out party. Brown is a composer whose remarkable craftsmanship and insight enable her to inscribe picturesque orchestral themes that hang together extremely well and also swing in their own sweet way. She is aided and abetted on 27 East by a blue-chip New York-based ensemble in whose ranks are such familiar names as saxophonists Dave Pietro and Ed ...
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by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Last week I saw something that's far more common on screen than in real life: the absolute fulfillment of a dream. Nope, nobody triggered the casino lights and buzzers, got surprised by the Prize Patrol, or found Prince(ss) Charming on the Internet. This particular triumph is portable, permanent, and capable of delighting complete strangers -- Anita Brown's terrific first CD, 27 East, which emerged eight years after she morphed from veteran music teacher and first-call copyist to serious composer and ...
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