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Gordon Lee and the GLeeful Big Band: Flying Dream
by Jack Bowers
We’re not told much about Gordon Lee except that he’s a Portland, Oregon-based music educator who has performed and recorded with a number of small groups and has been writing big-band charts for eight years. His influences, he writes in the brief liner notes, range from Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Maria ...
Gordon Lee and the Gleeful Big Band: Flying Dream
by Dan McClenaghan
With big bands, it's all about the arrangements. Those charts have to have that spark, as well as a depth and complexity. Then the solo slots--those punctuating flights of improvisation--have to soar, of course. They do here; they almost always do at this top level of musicianship; but it's the textures, the layerings, the eyebrow-raising counterpoints ...
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