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Mercy Mercy Mercy

By Bill Warfield

Label: Blujazz
Released: 2015

Article: Catching Up With

Randy Brecker: Hittin' It with "RandyPOP!"

by Bob Kenselaar
November 3, 2015

In his 62 years playing music--starting trumpet at eight years old--Randy Brecker has played all kinds of music, but for many years now, he's mostly been known as a solid, top-flight, first-call jazz player, a modern post-bop soloist and bandleader who carries around his old '70s fusion-funk Brecker Brothers fame in his back pocket. So, with ...

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Trumpet Story

By Bill Warfield

Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: When Janie Takes the Stand; Speak Like a Child; A Window That Shows Me the Moon; Theme for Malcolm; Flowerdale; Sponge; In the Land of Chad and Barbie; Carol; Pharaoh’s Dance; When Janie Takes the Stand (edited airplay cut).

Article: Album Review

Bill Warfield Big Band: Trumpet Story

Read "Trumpet Story" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 20, 2014

Trumpeters Bill Warfield and Randy Brecker have been friends for twenty years; it's high time they joined forces in a recording studio and began making beautiful music together. On Trumpet Story, Warfield's big-band homage to trumpeters and other musicians who have influenced him through the years, six-time Grammy Award winner Brecker solos on eight of ten ...

Song of the Day

Theme For Malcolm

July 26, 2014

Album: Trumpet Story
By Bill Warfield
Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2014
Duration: 08:03

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2009

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...

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Article: Album Review

The Russ Spiegel Jazz Orchestra: Transplants

Read "Transplants" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
September 15, 2009

Veteran jazz guitarist Russ Spiegel has always had an affinity for big band music, from his days of performing with the European-based Landes Jugend Jazz Orchester Hessen, The Bill Warfield Big Band, and his own Russ Spiegel Big Band, comprised of top German and international musicians. He continues his love affair of progressive ensemble music on ...