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Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band

Backgrounder: Clarke/Boland - Latin Kaleidoscope

August 2, 2025

Today, the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band still doesn't get the respect it deserves. Perhaps that's because the band was comprised of American and European musicians, many of whom were little known to record buyers. The band also did much of its touring abroad. But there were other reasons. Most of their records were released on ...

From George Coleman to Meeco: Ten Overlooked Classics

by Chris May
May 10, 2022

The only thread running through this installment of Building A Jazz Library is that of unsung quality. No particular artist is spotlighted, nor any particular genre. There are simply ten, randomly selected albums, recorded in the US and Europe between 1953 and 2021, which show jazz off at its finest, but which, for one reason or ...

Mark Murphy: An Essential Top Ten Albums

by Peter Jones
August 25, 2021

Revered by jazz singers the world over, Mark Murphy is barely known to the general public--which is curious, since he enjoyed a recording career that lasted more than half a century, made 48 albums in his lifetime, and played thousands of gigs with hundreds of musicians from Norway to Australia. A notoriously mercurial and secretive character, ...

All Smiles

By Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band

Label: MPS Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Let's Face the Music and Dance; I'm All Smiles; You Stepped Out of a Dream; I'm Glad There Is You; Get Out of Town; By Strauss; When Your Lover Has Gone; Gloria's Theme; Sweet & Lovely; High School Cadets.

Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band: All Smiles

by Chris M. Slawecki
August 31, 2017

The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band has historically been regarded as the best ensemble of its type based outside the US, and All Smiles is generally regarded as one of their finest recordings. You'll understand why with just a few listens. Belgian pianist and arranger Francy Boland began making music with American expatriate Kenny ...

Groovin’ Hard In Every Style

by Chris M. Slawecki
August 23, 2017

Big Mean Sound Machine Runnin' for the Ghost Peace & Rhythm | Blank Slate Records 2017 On Runnin' for the Ghost, Big Mean Sound Machine sounds intent on obliterating every imaginable musical border: the lines between regional or geographic styles, the divide between acoustic and electronic instruments, the ...

Swing Im Bahnhof

By Kenny Clarke

Label: Schema Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Invitation; Just Give Me Time; Con Alma; Serenata; Sconsolato; Yah Yah Blues; Born to Be Blue; Insensatez; Calypso Blues; Balafon for Marcel Marceau.

Handle With Care

By Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band

Label: KOCH International Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Long Note Blues (Here Is Cecco Beppe); Get Out of Town; Sonor; Speedy Reeds; Old Stuff; Om Mani Padme Hum

Our Kinda Strauss

By Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band

Label: Rearward
Released: 2002
Track listing: Fruelingsstimmen; By Strauss; Kaiserwalzer; Rosenkavalier; Wives and Lovers; Lotus; My Favourite Things; Nights in Warsaw; Lobsang; Greensleeves; Peter's Waltz; Cara Fea; Night Lady; Just Give Me Time; Schoen ist die Welt; Keep on Keeping On