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News: Interview

Dave Pell on Don Fagerquist

September 9, 2009

If you're unfamiliar with trumpeter Don Fagerquist [pictured], that's about to change. The now nearly forgotten West Coast trumpeter had one of the richest tones in the business in the 1950s and 1960s, and he made everything he played sound melodic and effortless. Fagerquist's solos were like tennis balls rolling out of a can onto a ...

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Article: Album Review

The Mike Vax Big Band Featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra: Sounds from the Road

Read "Sounds from the Road" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 15, 2009

The traveling autobus--the road to the road--has frequently been used as a symbolic metaphor in movies, books, commercials and, of course, songs of all kinds. Bus travel seems to have an oddly romantic element. In the halcyon days of the barnstorming big bands, bus and car travel were the only direct ways to get to the ...

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The Dave Pell Octet Plays Rodgers & Hart

By Dave Pell

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Why Do You Suppose?; Have You Met Miss Jones?; You Are Too Beautiful; Mountain Greenery; A Ship Without a Sail; The Blue Room; I've Got Five Dollars; Sing for Your Supper; It Never Entered My Mind; The Lady Is a Tramp; Spring Is Here; Ten Cents a Dance.

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Chances Are It Swings

By Shorty Rogers

Label: RCA Victor
Released: 1972
Track listing: Chances Are; No Such Luck; It's Not For Me To Say; Lilac Chiffon; I Just Don't Know; Who Needs You. Everybody Loves A Lover; Come To Me; My Very Good Friend In The Looking Glass; You Know How It Is; A Very Special Love; Teacher, Teacher.

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Fair And Warmer!

By June Christy

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1957
Track listing: I Want To Be Happy; Imagination; I've Never Been In Love Before; Irresistible You; No More; Better Luck Next Time; Let There Be Love; When Sunny Gets Blue; The Best Thing For You; Beware My Heart; I Know Why (And So Do You); It's Always You.

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