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Louisa Williamson

Plays Hone Tuwhare

By Rodger Fox

Label: T-Bone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hotere; Bird of Prayer; Roads; Miles Davis; The River Is an Island; Rain; Haiku; Time Out; Child Coming Home in the Rain from the Store; Sun O.

Rodger Fox Big Band: Plays Hone Tuwhare

by Jack Bowers
January 23, 2023

New Zealand's flagship jazz ensemble, the Rodger Fox Big Band, marks its fiftieth anniversary with an impressive homage to “the people's poet," Hone Tuwhare (1922-2008), on the centenary of his birth. As is pointed out in the album's liner notes, Tuwhare “was loved and cherished by New Zealanders from all walks of life. Touring tirelessly, Hone ...

Reimagined! The Roger Fox big Band Plays Sir Dave Dobbyn

By Rodger Fox

Label: T-Bones Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Bliss; Love You Like I Should; Be Mine Tonight; A Bridge on Fire; Magic (What She Do); Loyal; Walking in Light; Just Add Water; Welcome Home; Outlook for Thursday; Slice of Heaven.

Rodger Fox Big Band: You Gotta Know

by Jack Bowers
January 6, 2022

As trombonist Rodger Fox's superb New Zealand-based big band thunders toward its golden anniversary in 2023, the recordings keep coming. Here are two more, the first (Live) taped in October 2020 during what must have been a much longer concert at the Bruce Mason Centre in Auckland; the second, You Gotta Know, recorded that same year ...

Plays New Zealand

By Rodger Fox

Label: TBone Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Resolute; Taranaki; Stretchin’ with Gretchen; One Step Ahead of the Blues; Alife; Remembering; Caribbean Cruise; H.M.S. Grand Motorboat of the Seas.

The Rodger Fox Big Band: Plays New Zealand

by Jack Bowers
December 20, 2021

Even though such news would hardly make a ripple beyond the South Pacific, trombonist Rodger Fox's superlative big band was nearing its golden anniversary when Plays New Zealand was recorded in 2021. As the milestone loomed only two years in the distance, Fox decided it was time the band produced an album devoted entirely to new ...

Plays New Zealand

By The Rodger Fox Big Band

Label: TBone Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Resolute; Taranaki; Alife; One Step Ahead Of The Blues; Stretchin' With Gretchen; Remembering; Caribbean Cruise; HMS Grand Motorboat Of The Seas.