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Osland Saxophone Quartet: Commission: Impossible
by Edward Blanco
The saxophone is probably the one musical instrument that we most associate with this thing we call jazz, yet it is perhaps the last instrument that comes to mind when we think of classical music. The Osland Saxophone Quartet bridges the gap between those genres, playing a repertoire of rich classical jazz in groupings of suites ...
Phil Kelly & The Santa Ana Winds: My Museum
by Edward Blanco
Ever so often one comes across an album that sparkles all over, leaving quite an impression, and such is the case with this recording led by composer/arranger Phil Kelly. My Museum is a cleverly crafted album of sensational big band charts, featuring five original compositions wrapped around several classic jazz standards, making for a muscular performance ...
Cle Thompson: Tis the Season
by Edward Blanco
With Thanksgiving soon approaching and Christmas not far behind, the holiday season is just around the corner--and with it, the traditional holiday music that we're all accustomed to hearing this time of the year. To help celebrate this Christmas, North Carolina vocalist Cle Thompson has made Tis the Season, one of the most beautiful jazzy Christmas ...
Warren Vache and the Scottish Ensemble: Don't Look Back
by Edward Blanco
A veteran trumpeter with an extensive resume that includes stage, radio and television performances, Warren Vaché filled a void in his three-decade career with the recoding of Don't Look Back. Having once stated that “Everybody really serious about jazz music dreams of making a recording with a string ensemble, Vaché accomplishes this long-held desire by joining ...
The Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra: Clairvoyance
by Edward Blanco
Ayn Inserto is a young, beautiful and very talented composer who has just made a dramatic entrance into the world of big band jazz, offering a new voice on this debut album. Her music is new and unconventional, striking a different chord than what one usually expects from a big band project. Inserto assembled her sixteen-piece ...
Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band: From The Heart
by Edward Blanco
One of the premier exponents of Latin jazz, the Cuban-born, Toronto-based pianist extraordinaire Hilario Duran realizes a lifelong dream by making his first big band recording, which came, as the title implies, truly From The Heart. Joined by two other jazz greats from the island, celebrated saxophonist/clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera and drummer Horacio “El Negro Hernandez, Duran's ...
The New South Florida Jazz Orchestra With Kevin Mahogany at the Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
by Edward Blanco
South Florida Jazz Orchestra Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club Deauville Beach Resort, Miami Beach October 4th, 2006In June of this year renowned bassist and composer, Chuck Bergeron gathered a select group of top-notch Miami-based musicians and formed the first professional jazz rehearsal big band in the Greater Miami/South Florida area. ...
Bobby Matos And The Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble: Acknowledgement
by Edward Blanco
A veteran percussionist and pioneer of the Latin jazz genre since the early sixties, Bobby Matos has created an excellent fusion of Latin and Afro-jazz music on Acknowledgement. Matos records ten original hot and heavy, hip-moving compositions with his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble and pays tribute to the legendary John Coltrane with Afro-Latin arrangements of three ...
The Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra: In Progress
by Edward Blanco
The Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, a hard-driving local house band from Seattle, debuts with this album sculpted in the finest big band tradition. Led by saxophonist and composer Jim Cutler, the sixteen-piece big band features the best talented musicians from the Puget Sound area. The thirteen lively big band arrangements here are entirely comprised of new ...
hr-Bigband with Joey DeFrancesco & Jeff Hamilton: Once In A Lifetime
by Edward Blanco
One doesn't often associate the sounds of the organ with the music of big bands, but that's exactly what you get when Joey DeFrancesco, a virtuoso on the Hammond B-3 organ, joins forces with renowned drummer Jeff Hamilton of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra as special guests of conductor Jorg Achim Keller and the German hr-Bigband (Hessischer ...
