Jazz Articles about Caltech Jazz Bands

Caltech Jazz Bands: The Variety Pack

by Edward Blanco
March 24, 2009

The California Institute of Technology's Caltech Jazz Bands present their third album of largely big band music, offering selected charts by musicians and composers identified with the music from one end of the jazz spectrum to the other. The Variety Pack lives up to its title, with fourteen songs touching upon a variety of jazz styles from the songbooks of composers including Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Sammy Cahn, Chick Corea, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young and Dizzy Gillespie. Under the direction ...