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The Flying Horse Big Band: The Bat Swings!
by Jack Bowers
Although The Bat Swings! could well be taken for a baseball analogy, the focus of this third CD by the University of Central Florida's high-powered Flying Horse Big Band is on music associated with the campy Batman TV series from the late 1960s that starred Adam West as the masked superhero and Burt Ward as his ...
Jazzing Up Childhood Memories
by Jerome Wilson
Jazz musicians today sometimes draw on all sorts of popular culture for inspiration, including the television shows they grew up with. Here are two fine examples. The Flying Horse Big Band The Bat Swings! Flying Horse Records 2018 The University of Central Florida's Flying Horse Big Band presents a ...
Big Man on Campus
By Jeff Rupert
Label: Flying Horse Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dreamsville; June Song; This Is My Lucky Day; B.M.O.C.; Can You Love Once More?; A Lonely Breeze; Triste; Partido Blue; Move, Move, Move; The One for You; Raincheck; The New Creole Love Call.
Imagination
By Jeff Rupert
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Without a Song; I Can’t Help It; Snowfall; Strange Meadowlark; Imagination; A Felicidade; My Mistress’ Eyes; Soul Eyes.
Flying Horse Big Band: Big Man on Campus
by Jack Bowers
The Big Man on Campus on the fifth recording by the University of Central Florida's dexterous Flying Horse Big Band is composer / arranger / tenor saxophonist Harry Allen who wrote and arranged five of the album's eleven numbers and solos brightly on seven including Henry Mancini's amiable “Dreamsville," Billy Strayhorn's happy-go-lucky “Raincheck" and Antonio Carlos ...
Jeff Rupert and Richard Drexler: Imagination
by Geannine Reid
Saxophonist Jeff Rupert is a YAMAHA performing artist. His credits include recordings and tours with: Diane Schuur, Mel Tormé, Kevin Mahogany, Ernestine Anderson, and Benny Carter's Grammy winning Harlem Renaissance. Jeff Rupert toured for fifteen years with Sam Rivers; four albums ensued, and from 1997-2002 he toured and recorded with Maynard Ferguson. Rupert is a Pegasus ...
Channeling two jazz tenor titans
Tenor saxophonists Lew Del Gatto and Jeff Rupert channeled the spirit and hard-driving swing of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims in their Friday matinee concert at the Venice (FL) Art Center. The South County Jazz Club event teamed the two tenors with pianist Richard Drexler, bassist Don Mopsick and drummer Tony Vigilante. All of the music ...
The Toughest High School Jazz Competition Goes National
Orlando, FL - “It’s the only talent competition of its kind in North America,” Jeff Rupert, Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Central Florida (UCF) said Monday. Five* of the nation’s best high school age Jazz musicians will come to Orlando in March, 2014, to perform with the UCF All-Star High School Jazztet, that ...
The Jazz Professors: Live from the UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival / Do That Again
by Jack Bowers
The Jazz Professors aren't wearing any hats they don't own; the fact is, they really are Professors in the Jazz Studies program at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Instead of letting the students have all the fun, however, the Professors have recorded three albums of their own, the second Live from UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival, ...
