Results for "HUJE"

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Article: Album Review

The Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2000

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

Another year, another album by Washington, DC’s splendid Howard University Jazz Ensemble, which has been making these annual pilgrimages to the recording studio for more than two decades. It’s a wonderful idea, one that not only gives these young musicians something to look forward to but keeps them on their toes and eager to excel as ...

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Come Sunday: A Tribute to Duke Ellington

By Howard University

Label: HUJE
Released: 2000

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Article: Album Review

The Howard University Jazz Ensemble '99: Come Sunday: A Tribute to Duke Ellington

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2000

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, the most influential composer / arranger / bandleader in the history of Jazz, was born April 29, 1899, in Washington, DC. As it happens, our nation’s capital is also home to Howard University, which boasts one of the country’s foremost undergraduate Jazz ensembles and most respected Jazz Studies programs. In 1971 Ellington ...

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HUJE '98

By Howard University Jazz Ensemble

Label: HUJE
Released: 1999

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Article: Album Review

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 ...