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The Chris McDonald Orchestra: Big Band Classics / Big Band Favorites

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2000

These are the third and fourth albums recorded for Green Hill Music by Chris McDonald, one of the finest big–band arrangers you’ve never heard. But unlike the other two ( Big Band Hymns, Big Band Christmas, reviewed in November), there’s nothing special about them. Nothing new either. After all, the world hasn’t exactly been holding its ...

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Big Band Hymns / Big Band Christmas

By The Chris McDonald Orchestra

Label: Green Hill
Released: 1999

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Jazz Piano Christmas

By Beegie Adair

Label: Green Hill
Released: 1999
Track listing: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow; Santa Claus is Coming to Town; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; I

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Brazilian Nights

By Jack Jezzro

Label: Green Hill
Released: 1999
Track listing: Brazilian Nights; Fiesta Espa

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Beegie Adair: Jazz Piano Christmas

by Jim Santella
December 1, 1999

Traditional Christmas music is always a welcome treat this time of year. We’ve grown up with these songs, listening to Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald singing ‘em on the radio. As long as they’re performed tastefully, anything goes. The Green Hill label’s niche is instrumental albums to which one would normally ...

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Jack Jezzro: Brazilian Nights

by Jim Santella
November 1, 1999

With a title that espouses truth in advertising, guitarist Jack Jezzro has put together a concept album of suave Brazilian music for small ensemble. With his acoustic nylon string model capturing the essence, Jezzro’s program sways with the tropical breeze and basks in the serene Latin moonlight. With complementary interludes from piano, flute and flugelhorn, the ...

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The Chris McDonald Orchestra: Big Band Hymns / Big Band Christmas

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1999

Big band hymns? If you’re thinking there’s no way the two can be compatible, much less swing, there’s no doubt you’ve not yet heard these sacred anthems remodeled in contemporary big–band arrangements by the conspicuously talented Chris McDonald. If the mind is receptive, it won’t take much more than the first few bars of “I’ll Fly ...