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Kendrick Oliver

Welcome to New Life

By Kendrick Oliver

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: Intro to New Life; Welcome to New Life; Inghin the Ooh / Moten Swing; Wade in the Water; The Comeback; Another Day; Kid from Nazareth; Pluckin

Kendrick Oliver & The New Life Jazz Orchestra: Welcome to New Life

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2003

If Count Basie were alive today, he’d no doubt be leading the enthusiastic applause for Kendrick Oliver’s New Life Jazz Orchestra which punctuates the Basie-centered ensemble’s debut album, recorded in concert last September at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. “One thing we’ve never been accused of,” says Oliver, “is being boring”--and that they are not, zealously ...