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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: Here's to Life!

Read "Here's to Life!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 25, 2007

Every year, almost like clockwork, director Fred Irby III sends me a copy of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble's latest recording, and I am always pleased and happy to be reminded that an undergraduate big band of this caliber resides and plays in my hometown (as a boy growing up in Washington, DC, I lived within ...

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HUJE '05

By Howard University Jazz Ensemble

Label: HUJE
Released: 2006
Track listing: Hit the Road Jack; His Eye Is on the Sparrow; How High the Moon; On a Misty Night;

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE '05

by Jack Bowers
May 17, 2006

Another year, another superb recording by the Howard University Jazz Ensemble from our nation's capital. Director Fred Irby and the ensemble have been dropping by the studio for many years now (my library includes all but one of their annual albums dating back to 1989), and each new entry in the scrapbook perpetuates the impressive musical ...

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HUJE '98

By Howard University Jazz Ensemble

Label: HUJE
Released: 1999

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE '98

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 1999

The Howard University Jazz Ensemble from the heart of the nation’s capital continues a long tradition of recording once each year with HUJE ’98, which showcases the ensemble on nine tracks and the eight–member Jazztet on four. Howard has served as a launching pad for such talents as pianist Geri Allen and her trumpet–playing husband, Wallace ...

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