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Count Basie Orchestra: Count Plays Duke/Rosemary Clooney and The Count Basie Orchestra: At Long Last
By Count Basie
Label: MAMA Records
Released: 1999
Track listing:
Count Plays Duke
Anthony Wilson: Goat Hill Junket
by Paula Edelstein
Goat Hill Junket recalls Anthony Wilson to the forefront of his nonet playing five new originals and three arrangements with memorable melodies and great ensemble textures. Wilson and his ensemble swing with the dynamics of older styles of jazz on songs that create their own melodic world. His resonant guitar leads on an innovative arrangement of ...
Count Basie Orchestra directed by Grover Mitchell: Count Basie Orchestra: Count Plays Duke/Rosemary Clooney and The Count Basie Orchestra: At Long Last
by C. Michael Bailey
What’s In a Name. Almost all of the most famous big bands of the Swing era of the ‘30s and ‘40s live on in one incarnation or another. They tour, playing what can be considered the “greatest hits” from the band’s heyday book with a few inventive covers and new original pieces thrown in. The bands ...
Goat Hill Junket: Anthony Wilson
by Ed Kopp
It's easy to grasp why Anthony Wilson's harmonically rich arrangements have so many hard-ass jazz critics heaping praise. This is an elegant and ambitious album that invites comparisons to Wynton Marsalis’s best work.Anthony Wilson is the 30-year-old son of L.A. bandleader and composer Gerald Wilson. A guitarist who plays his Gibson with boppish proficiency, ...
Anthony Wilson
Label: MAMA Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Fargas Shuffle; The Parisian Knights; Karaoke; Leila; The New Fawn-Do!; Southern Gentleman; Pachinko; Do Nothin' `Till You Hear From Me; Monsignor; Remington Ride.
Goat Hill Junket
Label: MAMA Records
Released: 1998
Track listing:
W-2 Blues; Here's That Rainy Day; The Cherry Tree; It Has Happened to Me; Georgia Waltz; Hell's Belles; Flossie Lou; Stairway to the Stars (64:04).
Anthony Wilson: Goat Hill Junket
by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Anthony Wilson, whose debut was nominated last year for a Grammy Award, has neatly sidestepped the sophomore jinx on his latest release for the MAMA Foundation thanks to his creative writing and steadfast support from his New York-based sidemen. This one's in a somewhat funkier groove than Wilson's earlier effort with pianist Mike LeDonne playing ...
Anthony Wilson: Anthony Wilson
by Jim Santella
Among the nominees for a Grammy Award in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble category, Anthony Wilson's nonet recording is grouped with some rather formidable competitors: Joe Henderson's Big Band, Bill Holman's Big Band, J.J. Johnson's Brass Orchestra, and Phil Woods' Festival Orchestra. Fortunately, careers don't always hinge on the granting of arts & entertainment awards such ...
