Results for "Flying Horse Records"

Blues and Cubes

Label: Flying Horse Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Blue Lamp; Dora Maar; Les Demoiselles d’Avignon; Blue Steel; Segment; View of Heaven; Promenade aux Champs-Elysees; Promenade in Blue; Picasso’s Blue Lobster; The Iberian.

The Jazz Professors: Blues and Cubes

by Jack Bowers
July 31, 2022

Yes, the Florida-based Jazz Professors, as befits the name, are smart—but don't let that throw you. They also swing in the best jazz tradition, even though their fourth album, Blues and Cubes, was inspired by the art of Pablo Picasso. Unlike Picasso's works, however, there is scant abstraction here; the Professors embody far more bop than ...

Florida Rays

By Jeff Rupert

Label: Flying Horse Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: One Mint Julep; Let the Good Times Roll; Hallelujah I Love Her So; I’m Movin’ On; It Should’ve Been Me; Lonely Avenue; What’d I Say; You Don’t Know Me; Watermelon Man; (It’s Not Easy) Bein’ Green; Hit the Road, Jack; Busted; Unchain My Heart.

Flying Horse Big Band: Florida Rays

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 ...

The Bat Swings!

By Jeff Rupert

Label: Flying Horse Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Batmobile to Airport; Bat-Spin; Batman Riddles the Riddler; Bat-Spin; Batman Blues; Spider-Man Theme; Bat-Spin; Kitka; Bat-Spin; Holy-Hole-in-the-Doughnut; Bat-Spin; Murcielago en la Cueva (featuring Batman Theme); Amazing Grace (for Ira Sullivan).

The Flying Horse Big Band: The Bat Swings!

by Jack Bowers
July 17, 2018

Although The Bat Swings! could well be taken for a baseball analogy, the focus of this third CD by the University of Central Florida's high-powered Flying Horse Big Band is on music associated with the campy Batman TV series from the late 1960s that starred Adam West as the masked superhero and Burt Ward as his ...

Big Man on Campus

By Jeff Rupert

Label: Flying Horse Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dreamsville; June Song; This Is My Lucky Day; B.M.O.C.; Can You Love Once More?; A Lonely Breeze; Triste; Partido Blue; Move, Move, Move; The One for You; Raincheck; The New Creole Love Call.

Flying Horse Big Band: Big Man on Campus

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 ...

University of Central Florida Jazz Ensemble 1: Jazz Town / The Blues Is Alright

By University of Central Florida

Label: Flying Horse Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Jazz Town: The Eternal Triangle; Bad Moon; Lush Life; It’s A Man’s World; Bugle Call Rag; Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most; Me and Mrs. Jones; Jazz Town; It’s a Man’s World (reprise). The Blues Is Alright: Souls Valley; Giant Steps; Snowfall; Curiosity Killed the Kat; Nose Cone; The Stampede; Names Javan; Cuban Fantasy; I Went for a Walk; Vortex; The Blues Is Alright.

The Blues Is Alright

By UCF Flying Horse Big Band

Label: Flying Horse Records
Released: 2013