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Mike Vax Big Band / Dave Siebels / Phil Woods / London Horn Sound
by Jack Bowers
Mike Vax Big Band Sounds from the Road Summit Records 2009 As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby entertained millions with their “road" movies in the 1940s, so the Mike Vax Big Band has its own “road show," arguably as entertaining but playing to much smaller audiences than Hope ...
Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...
David Weiss: Writin', Arrangin' and Playin'
by R.J. DeLuke
David Weiss has been on the New York scene for a while now, writing and arranging, producing albums, organizing an outstanding octet. He's known for all that. He also plays the trumpet. Quite well, in fact. Although he's played with the likes of Jaki Byard, Frank Foster, Craig Handy, Christian McBride, Jimmy Heath and ...
Frank Foster: Well Water & Manhattan Fever
by Marcia Hillman
Frank Foster Well Water Piadrum 2006 Frank Foster Manhattan Fever Blue Note 2007 Well Water--Frank Foster leading an exciting 20-piece big band--was recorded in 1977 and never ...
Well Water
By Frank Foster
Label: Piadrum Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Joy Spring; Cecilia Is Love; Simone; There
Frank Foster and the Loud Minority Big Band: Well Water
by AAJ Italy Staff
Classici arrangiamenti swinganti su un tappeto sonoro post-boppistico. È la chiave di volta di questo disco inciso nel 1978, rimasto inedito fino a d’ora. In più, armoniosi temi ricchi di unisoni, per esaltare gli ariosi arrangiamenti del leader, impegnato anche al sax tenore nonché alla direzione orchestrale. Sax, tromboni ed anche flauti in bell’evidenza in un ...
Frank Foster and the Loud Minority Big Band: Well Water
by Jack Bowers
Thirty years ago, saxophonist Frank Foster and drummer Elvin Jones escorted eighteen other musicians (whom Foster dubbed the Loud Minority Big Band) into a recording studio in New York City to tape an album, Well Water. The hope was that a label would be found and the music released for public consumption. That never happened, and ...
We Do It Diff'rent
By Frank Foster
Label: Mapleshade Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: G
Frank Foster's Loud Minority Big Band: We Do It Diff'rent
by Jack Bowers
Frank Foster’s Loud Minority Big Band is more limber than loud -- although it doesn’t shrink from shouting whenever that’s appropriate on this persuasive in-concert album recorded in June ‘02 at NYC’s Jazz Standard, when the seventy-three-year-old Foster was recovering from a stroke that immobilized his left arm and left leg and limited his role to ...
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