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Dan Levine

Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Next?

by Jack Bowers
September 4, 2026

A big band by any other name... Arranger and orchestrator Russ Anixter has chosen to call his 11-piece ensemble the Hippie Big Band. Which is fine, Russ. Whatever works for you. Alas, much of the music on What Next? sounds as though it could have been imported from the mid- 20th century. ...

What Is?

By Russ Anixter

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: What Is Hip?; Dixie Chicken; Free Man in Paris/Freedom Jazz Dance; She Said, She Said; Heaven on Their Minds; Saint Stephen/Turn on Your Love Light; Uncle John’s Band; Hide Away; Into the Mystic; Whipping Post; Green Hornet.

Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra: Shiny!

by Jack Bowers
September 6, 2020

Lisa Maxwell, whose album Shiny! marks the recorded debut of her New York City-based Jazz Orchestra, is a pretty good composer and a very good arranger, even though several of her charts lean toward funk / rock, admittedly an acquired taste. Once she veers away from those two-beat cadences, as on “Ludie," “The Craw," “Hello, Wayne?" ...