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The Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra: In Progress

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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 ...

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hr-Bigband with Joey DeFrancesco & Jeff Hamilton: Once In A Lifetime

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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 ...

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Gerry Gibbs and the Thrasher Big Band: Live at Luna

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Live at Luna celebrates a swinging two-night live big band performance in July of 2005 by drummer/bandleader Gerry Gibbs and his Thrasher Big Band. If you're in any way familiar with or partial to the kind of roar you hear from a Buddy Rich Big Band or the powerful sounds from the Woody Herman's Thundering Herds, ...

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The Buddy Collette Big Band: Live at El Camino College

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On May 19, 1990, Buddy Collette assembled a twenty-piece big band for a one-night special performance at El Camino College in Torrance, California. Although it has taken over fifteen years to grace the airwaves for all to enjoy, it is well worth the wait. Though the master tapes were lost, producer David Keller fortunately kept a ...

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The Paul Cacia Jazz Orchestra: Legacy - The Last Sessions

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A trumpeter whose high-register playing style has been compared to the late Maynard Ferguson, Paul Cacia releases his tenth album and first in the last fifteen years with Legacy--The Last Sessions. It's essentially a compilation of studio sets during the years from 1991 to 2005 recorded with some degree of participation from 25 well-known big name ...

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The Ed Palermo Big Band: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

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Saxophonist and bandleader Ed Palermo has been arranging and performing the music of rock icon Frank Zappa for the last twelve years. 25 years ago he assembled a sixteen-piece big band of New York-based musicians which have played regularly at various Manhattan jazz clubs. This album is Palermo's second recording specifically dedicated to Zappa's original music. ...

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Rick Culver Trio: I'm Old Fashioned

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Trombonist Rick Culver, now based in Michigan, is a seasoned musician who has spent twenty years playing West Coast Jazz with the big bands of Kim Richmond, Bob Florence, Bill Holman, Gordon Brisker and many others. He has also toured with Buddy Rich, Glenn Miller and the Buddy De Franco big bands. His second album as ...

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Stan Kenton: Sophisticated Approach

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Sophisticated Approach is a reissue of eighteen iconic ballad arrangements by Stan Kenton, originally recorded in 1961 with his unique and controversial four-piece mellophonium horn section. The ballroom circuit was the life-blood of the Kenton Mellophonium Orchestra in the late '50s and early '60s, and this album, arranged by Lennie Niehaus, was intended as an addition ...

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Dewey Erney with the Tom Kubis Orchestra: Lucky To Be Me!

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Lucky To Be Me!, a collaboration of song and swing, is a throwback to an earlier era that embraced the romantic and gentler side of jazz. Vocalist Dewey Erney has often been compared Tony Bennet and Frank Sinatra, but his voice is actually most similar to that of the late Mel Torme. While he has twelve ...

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Big Band Byrne: Leaving For Home

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Leaving for Home is the bold and brash big band debut from the new Big Band Byrne, Colin Byrne's jazz orchestra from Leeds, United Kingdom. In February 2005 the composer/drummer went on the internet and advertised on Jazz in Leeds to attract musicians interested in playing original music in a new band. The result was the ...


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