Results for "Dana Landry"

Dana Landry

At the Edge of Spring

By David Caffey

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Starlight; At the Edge of Spring; Old Hat; Brazilian Dances for Brooklyn; The Brothers; Direct Current; One by One; This Is for Albert.

Shadows of Tomorrow

By Socrates Garcia

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: AG’s Resting Face…Scary!!!; Sultry Villa Mella Twilights; Brad’s Dreamy Samana Night; Illusions, Delusions…A Glimmer of Hope; Movement I: The Wizard’s Wicked Charm; Movement II: Liars and Fools; Movement III: The Mold-Breaker (Bringer of Joy).

Socrates Garcia Latin Jazz Orchestra: Shadows of Tomorrow

by Jack Bowers
September 11, 2025

Do not let the word “Latin" in front of the Socrates Garcia Jazz Orchestra's name sway you. Shadows of Tomorrow is bright and spirited contemporary jazz albeit with a southerly twist. The salute to Latin America is for the most part rhythmic; everything else leans resolutely toward el norte, and the orchestra (which is actually based ...

David Caffey Jazz Orchestra: At the Edge of Spring

by Jack Bowers
February 13, 2025

With his album, At the Edge of Spring, composer and arranger David Caffey and his Colorado-based Jazz Orchestra not only defy the widely-held belief that big bands are dead, they emphatically blow that axium out of the water. This is an ensemble with no discernible weaknesses, as proficient and powerful as any that have come before ...

David Caffey Jazz Orchestra: All In One

by Jack Bowers
December 3, 2018

Although it is alluded to only in Kabir Sehgal's informative liner notes, the first four numbers on composer / arranger David Caffey's new CD comprise the All in One Suite, a musical salute to the social, cultural and ethnic diversity that has forever been a hallmark of American society as well as to the frame of ...

Bob Washut Dodectet: Journey to Knowhere

by Jack Bowers
April 28, 2018

Even as experience is often the best teacher, so it is that the teacher often has the most useful experience. Bob Washut, who has been a teacher for roughly four decades, brings that experience and more to bear on Journey to Knowhere, preparing an ambrosial banquet for his twelve-member Dodectet whose main course consists of seven ...

The Romeo and Juliet Project

By Dana Landry

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Feud; Montague Crest; This Kiss; Union; Fortune’s Fool; Romeo / Paris; Juliet; Romeo and Juliet: Death Scene; Epilogue.

Glenn Kostur: The Way of It

by Jack Bowers
November 19, 2017

Glenn Kostur, a woodwind specialist who can play anything from piccolo to bass saxophone, limits himself to tenor and baritone on The Way of It, a genial session recorded in June 2017 in Greeley, CO, on which Kostur enlists faculty members from the University of Northern Colorado as his back-up team. Kostur, who ...

University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab Band 1: The Romeo and Juliet Project

by Jack Bowers
June 23, 2017

The University of Northern Colorado's Lab Band 1 has been a dominant force on the intercollegiate jazz scene for many years, first under director Gene Aitken and more recently Dana Landry whose latest enterprise with the band, The Romeo and Juliet Project, was of course inspired by William Shakespeare's incomparable paean to young love and its ...