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Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: Today
by Jack Bowers
Before proceeding, three cheers and a hearty round of applause are in order, as Today, the fifteenth album recorded by the impressive Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, helps mark the thirtieth anniversary of one of Scandinavia's most celebrated big bands. This truly is an ensemble with no discernible weaknesses: sharp soloists in almost every chair, a remarkable adeptness ...
Miho Hazama: Time River
by Angelo Leonardi
Sono anni importanti per il jazz orchestrale. L'emergere di giovani arrangiatori e bandleader iniziato di recente con Jason Lindner, Darcy James Argue, Ryan Truesdell, Kyle Saulnier e altri non s'è fermato, anche grazie al ruolo formativo del New England Conservatory e della Manhattan School of Music. È da lì che vengono alcuni dei nomi ...
Take Five with Michael Kocour
by AAJ Staff
Meet Michael Kocour: Michael Kocour is a jazz pianist, organist and composer. He also serves as Director of Jazz Studies in the School of Music at Arizona State University. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as one of the most sophisticated pianists in jazz," Kocour has performed at venues around the world and has been ...
Benjamin Sutin's Klazz-Ma-Tazz New York-based Klezmer/Jazz Fusion Group To Release Their Debut Album
New York-based Klezmer/Jazz Fusion Group to release their Debut Album Tangibility on OneTrickDog* Records September 1, 2015 Klezmer/Jazz fusion group Klazz-Ma-Tazz will release its debut album Tangibility on OneTrickDog* Records. Founded by violinist and composer Benjamin Sutin, in 2014, Klazz-Ma-Tazz blurs the boundaries of labels and genres. Rooted in the jazz idiom, the music reflects the ...
The View From The Back Of The Band: The Life And Music Of Mel Lewis
by David A. Orthmann
The View From The Back Of The Band: The Life And Music Of Mel Lewis Chris Smith 399 pages ISBN: #978-1-57441-574-2 University Of North Texas Press 2014 Good drummers were a rarity and that's all there was to it. There's no ego problem involved, it's just there weren't ...
Randy Brecker with the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Dearborn Station
by Edward Blanco
The renowned DePaul University Jazz Ensemble continues a tradition begun more than twenty years ago by performing and recording at the oldest historic jazz club in Chicago, the Jazz Showcase located in the historic 'Printer's Row' district of the Dearborn Station area. The Dearborn Station live recording also maintains another on-going tradition and that is documenting ...
JC Sanford Orchestra: Views from the Inside
by Angelo Leonardi
Nell'attuale rinascimento del jazz orchestrale JC Sanford non è affatto un esordiente anche se pubblica solo ora il primo disco a suo nome. È membro fondatore con Darcy James Argue del Composers' Federation Pulse, ha operato nel BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop guidato da Jim McNeely e Mike Abene, da anni agisce regolarmente come compositore ...
OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer
Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: The Big Time; Suite for Three: Oatts / Scott / Rich; XYZ; Skylark; At the Corner of Ralph and
Gary; Sad Song.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer
by John Ephland
There's a richness, a depth, a density to his varied charts. And the soloists and ensemble passages inside those charts! Such has always been the case with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, then, and now. For real, gliding from the spirit of Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, this edition of the VJO now embraces another one of ...
Tony Kadleck Big Band: Around The Horn
by Dan Bilawsky
Trumpeter Tony Kadleck is one of those musicians that nearly everybody has heard, regardless of whether they know it. He's an unerring player with extraordinary chops, making him a first-call player for Broadway contractors, jazz musicians, and anybody looking for a never-miss trumpet player to add musicality to a studio session. His horn can be heard ...



