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The Hit List

By Pat Longo

Label: Longann Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Bandstand Boogie; Jumpy Blues; Jump Jive and Wail; Longo

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The Pat Longo Big Band: The Hit List

Read "The Hit List" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 13, 2005

Okay, Pat, granted you have a splendid band, and there's an abundance of good-natured camaraderie and energy on The Hit List--but a playing time of less than 35 minutes is clearly unacceptable for a compact disc, which will accommodate up to eighty. Truth be told, this enterprise--with no liner notes or recording dates, no list of ...

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Pat Longo and His Latin/Jazz Big Band: Extreme Heat

Read "Extreme Heat" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 5, 2004

There's no messin' around in this hothouse. Pat Longo's star-laden Latin/Jazz Big Band cuts straight to the chase on Buddy Childers' torrid arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie/Chano Pozo's “Manteca" and keeps the fire-god Vulcan smiling throughout the remainder of this impressive scrapbook of rhythmically volatile jazz from south (well, mostly north) of the border. In fact, Luiz ...