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Dave Slonaker Big Band: Intrada

by Jack Bowers
March 28, 2014

Don't be put off by the name. Intrada, composer / arranger Dave Slonaker points out, is “a musical form often composed as a prelude, overture or fanfare," one whose upbeat phrases give rise to an exhilarating curtain-raiser on Slonaker's initial big-band recording. Rest assured this is a world-class ensemble and there's no doubt whose steady hand ...

Article: Big Band Report

Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?

by Jack Bowers
June 14, 2013

Betty and I returned to Albuquerque on Memorial Day after attending Swingin' on a Riff, the latest in a series of marvelous semi-annual events presented by Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute for more than twenty years at venues in and around L.A. This one was held May 23-26 at the Los Angeles Marriott ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Ed Puddick Big Band / Frank Macchia / Rick Wald NY 16

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2011

Ed Puddick Big Band Guys & Dolls Diving Duck Records 2010 The late Frank Loesser wrote at least 700 songs, more than a dozen of which are included in the score for the smash musical Guys and Dolls, which, believe it or not, opened on Broadway more than sixty years ...

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Frank Macchia: Son Of Folk Songs For Jazzers

Read "Son Of Folk Songs For Jazzers" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
March 23, 2011

Composer/arranger Frank Macchia explores twelve more American folk songs and their reinterpretation through jazz on Son of Folk Songs for Jazzers, a follow-up to his critically acclaimed Folk Songs for Jazzers (Cacophony, 2010), for which he received his third Grammy nod in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category. As with the first album, Macchia uses a fourteen-piece ...

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Frank Macchia: Son Of Folk Songs For Jazzers

Read "Son Of Folk Songs For Jazzers" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 21, 2011

Saxophonist Frank Macchia keeps racking up the Grammy nominations. He got his third nod for the award with his big band interpretation of “Skip to My Lou," from his Folk Songs for Jazzers (Cacophony, 2010), following up his recognition for Emotions (Cacophony, 2007) and Landscapes (Cacophony 2008). In addition to his work in producing ...

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Toni Tennille and the Matt Catingub Big Band - Things are Swingin’

By Toni Tennille

Label: Purebred
Released: 1994
Track listing: I Wish I were in Love Again (Hart/Rodgers); Things are Swingin’ (Peggy Lee/Jack Marshall); Making Whoopee (Donaldson/Kahn); You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (Mercer/Warren); Alright, Okay, You Win (Wyche/Watts); Teach Me Tonight (Cahn/DePaul); Caravan (Ellington/Mills/Tizol); Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Brown/Henderson); It’s So Nice to have a Man Around the House (Spina/Elliott); I Got Rhythm (Gershwin/Gershwin); Pardon My Southern Accent (Mercer/Malneck); Memphis in June (Carmichael/Webster); Hard Hearted Hannah (Bates/Yellen/Ager/Bigelow); This Can’t Be Love (Rodgers/Hart); That Old Black Magic (Mercer/Arlen); Mañana (Peggy Lee/Dave Barbour)