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Article: Big Band Report

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

by Jack Bowers
December 5, 2009

The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...

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Canadian Composers Portraits: Phil Nimmons

By Dave McMurdo

Label: Centrediscs
Released: 2005
Track listing: CD 1: Phil Nimmons Documentary (50:00). CD2: Threeful; Sands of Time; Sarah; Blues for Someone; Carey Dance; Nufsicisum; Suite P.E.I., 2nd Movement; Ed

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Article: Album Review

The Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra: Canadian Composers Portraits: Phil Nimmons

Read "Canadian Composers Portraits: Phil Nimmons" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 19, 2005

I don't know who conceived the idea for the Portraits series honoring Canadian composers, but it's a splendid one--even more so when the honoree is still vertical and swinging, as is the case with Phil Nimmons, who for more than half a century has been one of that country's most prolific and popular jazz musicians. This ...