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Gene Burkert

Pacific Mambo Orchestra: Pacific Mambo Orchestra

by Edward Blanco
December 20, 2012

San Francisco's premier Latin big band launches its self-titled Pacific Mambo Orchestra (PMO) debut barely two years after pianist Christian Tumalan and trumpeter Steffen Kuehn founded the 19-piece ensemble. A festival favorite and fixture in the Bay Area, the PMO is a sizzling modern day Latin salsa jazz orchestra built to revisit the big band sounds ...

George Stone / Fred Hess Big Band / Jamie Begian Big Band

by Jack Bowers
May 8, 2011

George StoneThe Real DealSelf Published2010 Every once in a while the stars align, the wheel of fortune spins precisely and listeners are the happy recipients of a big band album that is remarkably engaging and spectacular from start to finish; in other words, The Real Deal. This ...

The Jazz Palette

By Gene Burkert

Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: Sugar; Our Pleasure; Rogue March; Yesterdays; Gaviota; Yatra Ta; Alikeness; Talking Walls; Rasa and Her Moods; The Very Thought of You; Straight Ahead; Wind In Time; Relative Material.

Gene Burkert: The Jazz Palette

by Edward Blanco
June 24, 2006

A colorful masterpiece of an album, Gene Burkert's second recording as a leader (1996's The System was the first) contains new material in the form of five originals, along with fresh interpretations of a few old standards in one fine, attention-grabbing session. A veteran musician whose credits include playing with some of the biggest names in ...