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Ed Wilson

Live Featuring Jeff Duff

By Ed Wilson

Label: WP
Released: 2003
Track listing: Children of Sanchez; Mack the Knife; Peter Gunn; Bad Habits; Take It Easy; Bad, Bad Leroy Brown; Birdland; Minnie the Moocher; This Ol

Ed Wilson's Wacky Big Band: Live Featuring Jeff Duff

by Jack Bowers
January 2, 2003

Apparently, Australian trombonist Ed Wilson’s big band comes in two delectable flavors, “regular” and “wacky.” Having already reviewed a splendid new CD, Song for Joel, by the regular ensemble, we now turn our gaze toward the wackier group. Unlike its staid counterpart, the Wacky Big Band employs the services of a vocalist, Jeff Duff, on seven ...

Song for Joel

By Ed Wilson

Label: WP
Released: 2002
Track listing: Waltzing Matilda; Sophisticated Samba; Plain Sailin

The Ed Wilson Big Band: Song for Joel

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2002

This is the second album I’ve heard by trombonist Ed Wilson’s world-class big band from Down Under. That earlier outing ( Up the Pace ) was quite good; Song for Joel is (on the whole) even better, which speaks well for Wilson and his mates, who comprise a number of Australia’s most respected sidemen. Wilson, who ...