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Maria Schneider Orchestra: Days of Wine and Roses: Live at the Jazz Standard

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Days of Wine and Roses, captured in a live performance at the Jazz Standard in New York, was originally packaged in 2000 with two bottles of Riesling wine for sale, conceived and promoted as a marriage of music and wine, when the project encountered difficulties as the laws governing the sale and ditribution of liquor prevented ...

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Gerald Wilson Orchestra: In My Time

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We are fortunate that jazz has been touched by men like Gerald Wilson. Many legends have passed through this music, leaving us with memories of performances and recordings that will remain long beyond their time. Recorded in our time from a man for all time, In My Time is Wilson's second album for Mack Avenue Records ...

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Temple University Jazz Ensemble: Room 323

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Performing regularly in the Philadelphia area, the Temple University Jazz Ensemble, led by Terell Stafford, has just come out with its first album of six standards and two student-penned original charts. Not your typical college orchestra, the TUJE is a small seven-piece ensemble that plays with the energy of a full-size big band and the tightness ...

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Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra: Boogaloo Land

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A three-time winner of Downbeat magazine's annual student music awards in the college big band category, the Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra offers a riveting and exciting performance with its sixth impressive album. Due credit must be given to Trent Kynaston and Scott Cowan, who together have directed and produced a dynamic album of uncommon standards ...

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Anders Blichfeldt & Danish Radio Big Band: Born To Be Blue

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What do you get when you put a Danish rock star in front of a 21-piece big band ensemble and throw in some jazz/blues melodies? The answer? Born To Be Blue. The Danish Radio Big Band serves up a tasteful blend of jazz and blues, played in styles from swing to funk. Singer Anders Blichfeldt, leader ...

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Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band: For J.G.

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For J.G. is simply titled in honor of “jazz giants" and performed in a tribute to the immortals of the music, the pioneers of the sound, and the legends of this original art form we call jazz. The fourth album by composer/arranger/trombonist Kenichi Tsunoda's world-class big band from Tokyo pays tribute to Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, ...

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Mt. Hood Jazz Band 2005: Super Blue

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Super Blue is a superb big band recording from a community college with a major jazz education program. Based in Oregon, the Mt. Hood Community College jazz band has a history of excellence which includes winning top honors at numerous jazz festivals throughout the country. The school's alumni have shared the stage with the likes of ...

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Pat Longo and His Hollywood Jazz Band: Extreme Heat

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Salsa it's not, but Pat Longo and his Hollywood Jazz Band deliver a Latin-flavored hot big band sound with shades of Kenton on Extreme Heat. It blends great writing and arrangements with a fiery performance from a star-filled ensemble to produce a unique Latin jazz experience. To the discerning jazz fan and aficionado, a glance at ...

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The Don Menza Big Band: Menza Lines

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Laying the tracks from Stratospheric, a Los Angeles Jazz Institute four-day celebration of the career of trumpeter/bandleader Maynard Ferguson, former alumni Don Menza directs his own big band on the live recording Menza Lines. The album, the second for the Menza Big Band after the well-regarded Burnin (1981), was recorded at the LAX Four Points Sheraton ...

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Buddy Charles Concert Jazz Orchestra: We're Here

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Completing an unfinished work of art that began more than a decade ago, Buddy Charles put the final strokes to the canvas, with great perseverance and a little help from his friends, and unveiled this much-anticipated big band recording, aptly titled We're Here. A journey of twelve years--at the expense of some personal pain and professional ...


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