Results for "Francisco Torres"

Francisco Torres

Presenting the Dan West Big Band

By Dan West

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Descant; Tell Me a Bedtime Story; Besmirched, Befuddled & Verklempt; Nirvana O’Rama; Beeba; Zoisha; Wayside Walk.

Dan West: Presenting the Dan West Big Band

by Jack Bowers
March 29, 2026

"If it walks like a big band and talks like a big band..." well, that does not always mean it actually is a big band. For example, Los Angeles-based composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Dan West 's able group is by and large an octet which, by means of modern electronics, has been transformed into a full-fledged ...

Stories

By Mina Choi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dark Side Light Side; Secret Garden; Bolivia; Paddle Through the Lake; You're Still Here (in memory of Sewol ferry); All About Your Cries and Kisses; Helen's Song.

Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!

By Mark Masters

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Was It Here…Is It There?; The One Who Makes the Rain Stop; Croquet Ballet; If One Could Only See; Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!; The Seventh Day; Insight; Credence.

Helen's Song

December 17, 2025

Album: Stories
By Mina Choi
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:43

Was It Here...Is It There?

October 30, 2025

Album: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!
By Mark Masters
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 4:39

Mina Choi: Stories

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2025

Who could have guessed that the next wave of world-class big-band composers and arrangers would wash ashore in the U.S. after starting its journey in faraway Asia? In 2024 alone, many composers with roots in the Far East have nourished their credentials with impressive and well- received big-band recordings. Those whose names spring to mind include ...

Secret Garden

April 14, 2025

Album: Stories
By Mina Choi
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 08:29

Geoff Stradling: Nimble Digits

by Jack Bowers
May 18, 2024

Remember the good old days when bandleaders would give a downbeat and their bands would start swinging and keep on doing so until their audiences literally begged for more? Welcome to the past--present tense--courtesy of pianist Geoff Stradling's superb Los Angeles-based StradBand, which swings heartily and with seldom a pause on its radiant and power-laden introductory ...