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The Des Moines Big Band: Being There
by Jack Bowers
This is the third recording we’ve heard by the splendid Des Moines Big Band, now in its forty–first year, and each of them has featured a talented guest artist: first, trumpeter Bobby Shew; next, DSMBB director Jim Oatts’ New York–based brother, saxophonist Dick Oatts; and now trumpeter Walter White who composed half of the ten selections on Being There (including that one) and solos on half a dozen. White, who has occupied the lead trumpet chair in groups fronted by ...
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