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Howard University Jazz Ensemble 2023: Nefertiti

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The Howard University Jazz Ensemble was formed almost half a century ago, in 1975, by Fred Irby III, its first--and, so far, only--music director. Every year since 1976, the ensemble has recorded and released an album to showcase its prowess and growth under Irby's baton. This year's entry, Nefertiti, is a tribute to ...

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Nefertiti

Label: HUJE
Released: 2023
Track listing: Nefertiti; Hindsight; Send One Your Love; Portrait of a Breath; Heart of Brazil; Green Chimneys; Gymnopedie #1; Pretty Eyes; Remember; How Deep Is Your Love.

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HUJE 2022

Label: HUJE
Released: 2022
Track listing: My Women (Mes Hommes); To Wisdom, the Prize; Chan’s Song (Never Said); Holy Land; Funk in Deep Freeze; Romantic Night; Old Folks; Frim-Fram Sauce; A Sassy Samba.

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2022

Read "HUJE 2022" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Recordings by the superb Howard University Jazz Ensemble have been surfacing like clockwork each year since shortly after the orchestra was formed in 1975 by its first (and only) music director, Fred Irby III. Sometimes the albums have overall themes, while others (such as this one) are dedicated to one or more of the university's distinguished ...

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We Shall Overcome

Label: HUJE
Released: 2020
Track listing: We Shall Overcome; Honeysuckle Rose; Love; The Sad Ones; Sassy Samba; Ribbon in the Sky; St. Louis Blues; Hands Up, Don’t Shoot; Heal Again; We Three Kings; His Eye Is on the Sparrow.

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Hi-Fly

Label: HUJE
Released: 2020
Track listing: In Your Own Sweet Way; Aren’t You Glad You’re You; Hi-Fly; The Jumpin’ Blues; Blues Walk; Moon River; Old Devil Moon; Star Eyes.

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: Hi-Fly

Read "Hi-Fly" reviewed by Jack Bowers


In 2020, the superb Howard University Jazz Ensemble from the US capital marked its forty-fifth anniversary. Since its inception in 1975, the ensemble has had only one director, Fred Irby III, its founder and guiding force for lo these many years. One year after organizing the group, Irby assembled its members for a visit to a ...

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Afro Blue: We Shall Overcome

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The vocal group Afro Blue was founded (in 2002) by its director, Connaitre Miller, Jazz Voice Coordinator at Howard University in Washington, DC. Miller's approach to vocal jazz is patterned after that of such celebrated groups as Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, the Manhattan Transfer and Take 6, a blueprint that has served Afro Blue well and ...

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HUJE 2018

Label: HUJE
Released: 2019
Track listing: I Concentrate on You; Driftin’; Dear Lord; For the Love of Money; Blue Monk; Sweet Cakes; They Can’t Take That Away from Me; Sweet Georgia Peach; Frankie and Johnny.

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2018

Read "HUJE 2018" reviewed by Jack Bowers


One sure sign of spring is the arrival of the latest yearly recording by the superb Howard University Jazz Ensemble, a tradition that dates without pause from the days of vinyl in 1976, one year after the ensemble was formed by its first and only music director, Fred Irby III. For archivists and numbers-crunchers, that's forty-four ...


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