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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 ...

Dani Felber Big Band / Dan Gailey Jazz Orchestra / Jazz Composer's Workshop Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
September 2, 2010

Dani Felber Big BandMore Than Just Friends Self Published2010 Before hazarding any premature comment about the merits of this new album by Swiss bandleader Dani Felber, it must be noted at the outset that one of Felber's good friends is former Count Basie stalwart Frank Foster whose even-handed ...

Journey Home

By Dana Landry

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Gatien Dance; Journey Home; Island Life; Deerhead Sketches; 1,2,3; Soulful Bill; All of You; Touch of Your Lips; Hard Times Come No More.