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Eric Miyashiro / CNY Jazz Orchestra / No Name Horses / Stockholm Jazz Orchestra / Howard University Jazz Ensemble
by Jack Bowers
> Eric Miyashiro Pleiades Village Music 2008 The rationale for Pleiades was simple: trumpet master Eric Miyashiro wanted to say a proper goodbye to his “all-time hero," the late Maynard Ferguson, and do it the way he does best--aiming his horn toward the stratosphere and shaking down some stars, ...
Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra / 9th+Lincoln / Georg Riedel / VCU Jazz / Bobby Vince Paunetto / Klas Lindquist
by Jack Bowers
Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra Harriet Tubman Noir Records 2008 Marcus Shelby, a bandleader who's not known for thinking small, has recorded his most ambitious work to date: a colorful and wide-ranging oratorio for jazz orchestra and vocal ensemble centered around the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman who rose ...
Alan Baylock / Brussels Jazz Orchestra / Rick Wald / Nathan Tanouye
by Jack Bowers
Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra Eastern Standard Time H&N 2008 At first glance it may seem that, for a seasoned pro, arranging time-tested standards for a jazz orchestra would be something akin to taking a leisurely stroll in the park. But consider this: countless other arrangers have seen things ...
Louie Bellson/Clark Terry; Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra; The Whit Williams Big Band
by Jack Bowers
Louie Bellson/Clark Terry Louie & Clark Expedition 2 Percussion Power 2007 Incredible. Who could have foreseen that drummer Louie Bellson and trumpeter Clark Terry, both of whom joined the celebrated Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1951, would be reunited for another high-powered big-band date in 2007. Even more amazing, ...
Tolvan Big Band / Frank Macchia / Norrbotten Big Band
by Jack Bowers
Tolvan Big Band Code Red Prophone Records 2007 Sweden's Tolvan Big Band--which has been pleasing audiences and amassing honors for almost three decades and has a well-earned reputation for probing the outer boundaries of ensemble-oriented jazz--shows on Code Red, its first recording in five years, that it has ...
Bruce Eskovitz, Don Scaletta, Nova Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Bruce Eskovitz Jazz Orchestra Invitation Pacific Coast Jazz 2007 The Bruce Eskovitz Jazz Orchestra is actually a tentet that sounds appreciably larger, thanks to resourceful charts by the leader and inspired blowing by all hands. The group's second recording, Invitation, more than stands its ground against the first ...
NYJO, Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, University of Northern Iowa
by Jack Bowers
National Youth Jazz Orchestra Out of Hamelin Stanza Music 2007 Having lavished praise on the CD version of composer Paul Hart's stellar four-movement suite, Out of Hamelin, I am now ready to do the same for the DVD. The suite, based on Robert Browning's poem, “The Pied Piper ...
Lee Konitz, Maynard Ferguson, New England Jazz Ensemble
by Jack Bowers
Lee Konitz / Ohad Talmor Big Band Portology OmniTone 2007 Saxophonist Lee Konitz turned eighty years young on October 13, and what better way to flip the bird to Father Time than by producing a year-long series of dynamic new recordings with his nonet, string project and the Ohad Talmor ...
Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, Thilo Wolf Big Band, and the Westchester Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Knoxville Jazz Orchestra Blues Man from Memphis Blue Canoe 2007 Blues Man From Memphis is the second CD by the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra devoted to the music of Donald Brown, who proves again that his proficiency easily outshines his prominence. Brown, whose thematic compositions are invariably engaging and ...
