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HUJE 2015

Label: HUJE
Released: 2016
Track listing: Theme for Malcolm; Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk; Valse Hot; Soul Eyes; Blues for AL; Love Dance; Stablemates; Lonely Woman; Freedom Sound; Starmaker.

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2015

Read "HUJE 2015" reviewed by Jack Bowers


In 1975, Howard University, a bulwark of higher education in our nation's capital since 1867, formed its first Jazz Ensemble and named a young trumpeter / educator, Fred Irby III, as director. One year later, Irby ushered the ensemble into a recording studio to verify its prowess, a tradition that has continued uninterrupted for forty years. ...

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HUJE 2014

Label: HUJE
Released: 2015
Track listing: Ramblin’; Bright Mississippi; I Can’t Help It; Search for Peace; Joshua; Where Is Love?: Pannonica; Fried Bananas; Hard Times; In Case You Missed It.

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2014

Read "HUJE 2014" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Another year, another splendid album by the exemplary Howard University Jazz Ensemble from Washington, DC. Not that that should surprise anyone; Fred Irby III, who is completing his fortieth year as the band's first and only director, has ushered his students into a recording studio for the last thirty-nine of them, dating back to the days ...

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Journey of a Friend

Label: HUJE
Released: 2013

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Journey of a Friend

Label: HUJE
Released: 2013
Track listing: Butterfly; Sister Cheryl; Buhaina, Buhaina; Journey of a Friend; Moment’s Notice; Carnival di Panama; Sweet Love; Peace; UnconTainable; Good Bait; It’s Easy to Remember; Festive Minor.

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: Journey of a Friend

Read "Journey of a Friend" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Although the Howard University Jazz Ensemble isn't quite as dependable as a morning sunrise, it has been present and accounted for in a recording studio once each year since it was formed in 1976 by Fred Irby III, who not only directed that first session but has supervised every one since, right up to No. 37, ...

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Here's to Life!

Label: HUJE
Released: 2007
Track listing: Quiet Sophistication; Here

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: Here's to Life!

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


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

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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