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John Hollenbeck: Songs You Like A Lot

Every ending a beginning, each conclusion an act of creation. If multi-hyphenate John Hollenbeck's Songs You Like A Lot doesn't slot within that sentiment, nothing really does. This collection marks the completion of a lauded trilogy that's stretched out across the better part of a decade, but it also signals the start of something new--the Flexatonic ...
Songs You Like A Lot

Label: Flexatonic Records label
Released: 2020
Track listing: Down to the River to Pray; Blue; How Deep is Your Love?; Fire and Rain; Don't Give Up; Kindness; Pure
Imagination; Knows Only God (God Only Knows).
Jim McNeely: Barefoot Dances and Other Visions

When today's top composer-arrangers of large ensemble jazz are discussed, Jim McNeely's name sometimes gets overlooked. He deserves the recognition. He's been a long- time associate of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and its descendant, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and he's also done a lot of work with several European big bands. It could be ...
Jim McNeely / Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Barefoot Dances and Other Visions

Barefoot Dances and Other Visions is a contemporary seven-part suite written by composer/arranger Jim McNeely in 2014 for the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, with whom he has worked since 2008. I tailored my musical visions," he writes, to fit each player in the ensemble, and placed each soloist in a framework both familiar and challenging." Challenging ...