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McGill University

Ostinatocious

By McGill University

Label: FMJ Records
Released: 2005

The McGill University Jazz Orchestra: Ostinatocious

by Jack Bowers
May 2, 2005

While there may be some doubt that Ostinatocious is really a word, there's no doubt that the McGill University Jazz Orchestra from Montreal, Canada, is really a band. This is the MJO's eighth album, and to say it is up to its usual standards is the most earnest compliment one can bestow. Ostinatocious spans the years ...

Conundrum

By McGill University

Label: McGill Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Lickety Split; Quintessence; Giant Steps; Ya Gotta Try; The Touch of Your Lips; Exner

The McGill Jazz Orchestra: Conundrum

by Jack Bowers
February 2, 2003

A conundrum, according to Webster, is “a riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun,” or “a paradoxical, insoluble or difficult problem; a dilemma.” The only conundrum surrounding the seventh album by Montreal’s McGill University Jazz Orchestra is whether it may be the best recording by a college-level ensemble that one encounters this ...