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Caltech Jazz Bands: The Variety Pack
by Edward Blanco
The California Institute of Technology's Caltech Jazz Bands present their third album of largely big band music, offering selected charts by musicians and composers identified with the music from one end of the jazz spectrum to the other. The Variety Pack lives up to its title, with fourteen songs touching upon a variety of jazz styles ...
The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Gets "Thrasched"
by Jack Bowers
The thirty-third annual Albuquerque Jazz Festival ended its two-day run on February 21, 2009. The event is devoted mainly to performances by high school and middle school bands, while the grand finale features the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra with invited guests, this year the saxophone quartet Thrascher (Randy Hamm, soprano; Tim Ishii, alto; Ed Petersen, tenor; Glenn ...
Live
By Bill Watrous
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2005
Track listing: Caravan; A Time for Love; Mama Llama Samba; When You
Bill Watrous/Temple Jazz Orchestra: Live
by Jack Bowers
This is the second recording by the Temple (Texas) Jazz Orchestra (following '01's Soft Lights, Sweet Music ) and this time Tom Fairlie's forceful ensemble has some help--we're talking big-time help in the person of superstar trombonist Bill Watrous, whose upper-register pyrotechnics enhance all but the opening number of this high-kicking concert recorded in March '03. ...
Live in Living Comfort
By Bill Watrous
Label:
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Way You Look Tonight; Blue Monk; O Grande Amor; There Is No Greater Love; Try a Little Tenderness; In the Still of the Night; Blues for Mad Mary (72:48).
The Bill Watrous Quartet: Live in Living Comfort
by Jack Bowers
While an organ trio plus trombone isn’t unheard-of, it is uncommon, so much so, says Bill Watrous, that when friend and fellow trombonist Rob Stoneback approached him with the idea, he was skeptical. In the wake of Live in Living Comfort, recorded for what appears to be a small but responsive audience at the Comfort Suites ...
