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Let 'Em Swing!
By Erwin Lehn
Label: CK Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Opus One; Lester Leaps In; Ciribiribin; Drum Boogie; You Are Too Beautiful; Jumpin
Erwin Lehn Orchestra: Let 'Em Swing!
by Jack Bowers
Let 'Em Swing! surveys the early years (1951-65) of bandleader/vibraphonist Erwin Lehn's groundbreaking Südfunk-Tanzorchester, which continues today as the world-class SWR Big Band. Lehn led the band for forty years until his retirement at the end of 1991. The orchestra then became known as the SDR Big Band, and later the SWR. Lehn's entire career as ...
Towednack
By Bob Curnow
Label: CK Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Towednack (Home Parish); Too Soon Tomorrow; Kenton Kollage; Of Another Time (in memory of Stan Kenton); Keystone Shuffle; Not to Be Forgotten; Spencer Is Here!; 5-5-7; Lullaby Waltz; Riverdance (75:48).
Bob Curnow & the SWR Big Band: Towednack
by Jack Bowers
After hearing Bob Curnow's wonderful Celtic-inspired big-band composition, “Towednack," introduced at a convention of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) several years ago in Anaheim, CA, I hurried to the Sierra Music Publications booth in the exhibition hall (where I knew I'd find him) to applaud the composer. “Absolutely brilliant!" I gushed, or words to ...
Plays the Music of Maria Schneider / Kurt Weill
By SWR Big Band
Label: CK Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Disc 1
The SWR Big Band: 50 Jahre
by Jack Bowers
Germany’s world–class SWR Big Band, which began life in 1951 as Erwin Lehn’s Südfunk–Orchester, marked its golden anniversary this year by releasing not one but three consistently spectacular albums. The first, Goldener Meilenstein, features compositions and arrangements by one of America’s most prominent big–band leaders, Bob Florence, while 50 Jahre, a marvelous two–disc set, covers the ...
The SWR Big Band Live!: Plays the Music of Maria Schneider / Kurt Weill
by Jack Bowers
Setting aside for the moment the question of her proficiency as a composer / arranger / conductor, one must concede that Maria Schneider is either a crackerjack (self)–promoter or has one of the best agents in the business. Ten photographs are included with this two–CD set, which was recorded in concert in May 2000 with Germany’s ...
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