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Article: Album Review
Donald Walden and the Detroit Jazz Orchestra: Focus
by Jack Bowers
Before appraising the music on saxophonist Donald Walden's new album, Focus, we should first consider the “truth in advertising" issue. Webster's defines an orchestra as “a group of instrumentalists including especially string players [emphasis mine] organized to perform ensemble music." Walden's “orchestra" has no strings attached, and in fact is actually an octet. That's correct, a ...
