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John Kornegay

Paul Marinaro: Mood Ellington

by Pierre Giroux
February 8, 2026

Paul Marinaro's Mood Ellington is an ambitious, carefully crafted double CD that regards Duke Ellington's vocal repertoire not as a fixed monument but as a living collection of work capable of endless renewal. Instead of relying on a single arranging perspective, Marinaro commissioned thirteen renowned composers, allowing Ellington's songs to be explored through multiple aesthetic lenses ...

The Bowie Project

By Metropolitan Jazz Octet

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Slow Burn; 5:15 The Angels Have Gone; Changes; Letter to Hermione; Space Oddity; Let’s Dance; Stay; Quicksand; I Would Be Your Slave; Conversation Piece; Life on Mars?.

Metropolitan Jazz Octet

Active since: 2014

The Metropolitan Jazz Octet (MJO) is the reawakening of a group that started in the 1950’s by Chicago saxophonist and arranger Tom Hilliard. 

From 1950 through mid-'80s Hilliard wrote many of the octets compositions. He worked with Chicago’s top arrangers and studio musicians expanding the library to 150-plus charts. In 1959 MJO recorded an album on the Argo label called “The Legend of Bix,” a tribute to 1920's great cornetist and composer Bix Beiderbecke. 

As a professor at De Paul University School of Music, Hilliard taught three current members of MJO to whom he bequeathed his complete library, passing the torch to the next generation. 

Slow Burn

February 10, 2023

Album: The Bowie Project
By Metropolitan Jazz Octet
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:40

The Road To Your Place

By Metropolitan Jazz Octet

Label: Jazz Artists Resource
Released: 2020
Track listing: Green Cheese Blues; Shakin' Loose; Come Sunday; Lady Bird; Quandry; Fancy That; Shadow Puppets; Andy's Tune 1.0; It Might As Well Be Spring; The Road To Your Place; Andy's Tune 2.0.

It's Too Hot For Words

By Metropolitan Jazz Octet

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2019