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The Don Menza Big Band: Menza Lines

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by Edward Blanco
November 24, 2005

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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by Edward Blanco
November 23, 2005

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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Buddy Rich: The Lost Tapes

by Edward Blanco
November 16, 2005

Buddy Rich and His Band The Lost Tapes Lightyear Entertainment 2005 From the ashes of a 1990 fire that almost destroyed a piece of jazz music history, Buddy Rich and his band come alive in a fully restored made for home video production of a 1985 concert formerly ...

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Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: TNT: A Tommy Newsom Tribute

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by Edward Blanco
November 14, 2005

TNT is the fifth album by the explosive New York-based all-female DIVA Jazz Orchestra, blending a contemporary mainstream big band sound with a progressive flavor. Founded by a former relief drummer for the Buddy Rich Big Band, Stanley Kay, the fifteen piece big band has been under the direction of bandleader/drummer Dr. Sherrie Maricle for the ...