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Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band

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 ...

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

Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band: Change of Scenes

by William Grim
October 6, 2002

This amazing album was the last recording by the Clarke-Boland Big Band and features six original compositions by Francy Boland with Stan Getz as featured soloist. The album was originally released only in Europe and its current CD re-release is now out of print, which is regrettable because it features some of the finest big band ...

Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band: Handle With Care

by William Grim
October 5, 2002

There were two big bands that came out of the 1960s that were co-led by drummers and arrangers. One was the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra and the other was the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band. A good case can be made for the assertion that Clarke and Lewis were the two best big band drummers of ...