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Flying Horse Big Band: Swingin' with the Flying Horse Big Band

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by Jack Bowers
November 11, 2026

Swingin' is indeed the hallmark and animating purpose of the 11th recording by the stellar Flying Horse Big Band, the flagship jazz ensemble of the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Under saxophonist Jeff Rupert's able direction, the FHBB plants the pedal on the metal at the outset and doesn't slow the engine before the album's ...

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Large Jazz Ensembles, Past And Present

by Jerome Wilson
July 1, 2022

This show on jazz orchestras and big bands begins and ends with Duke Ellington. In between, it includes Michael Gibbs, Count Basie, the Either/Orchestra, Chico O'Farrill, George Russell and several others. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air ...

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Flying Horse Big Band: Florida Rays

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by Jack Bowers
January 28, 2021

On its seventh recording, Florida Rays, the University of Central Florida's always dependable Flying Horse Big Band abandons its usual modus operandi—straight-from-the-hip contemporary jazz--to survey music associated with R&B legend (and Florida native) Ray Charles. As Charles, an accomplished musician, was best known as a vocalist, one might anticipate (correctly) that a handful of Charles' progeny ...

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Jazzing Up Childhood Memories

by Jerome Wilson
April 4, 2018

Jazz musicians today sometimes draw on all sorts of popular culture for inspiration, including the television shows they grew up with. Here are two fine examples. The Flying Horse Big Band The Bat Swings! Flying Horse Records 2018 The University of Central Florida's Flying Horse Big Band presents a ...

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Flying Horse Big Band: Big Man on Campus

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by Jack Bowers
June 7, 2017

The Big Man on Campus on the fifth recording by the University of Central Florida's dexterous Flying Horse Big Band is composer / arranger / tenor saxophonist Harry Allen who wrote and arranged five of the album's eleven numbers and solos brightly on seven including Henry Mancini's amiable “Dreamsville," Billy Strayhorn's happy-go-lucky “Raincheck" and Antonio Carlos ...