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The Cal State Hayward Jazz Ensemble '98-'99: Metro
by Jack Bowers
The Cal State Hayward Jazz Ensemble has earned many laurels in recent years, but director Dave Eshelman won’t let his bright–eyed students rest long on any of them. Metro, the CSUH ensemble’s most recent album, is a typically challenging amalgam of original compositions by Eshelman and others (including three by the ensemble’s gifted pianist, Ayn Inserto) ...
Benny Goodman -- The Swing Collection
By North Carolina Jazz Repertory
Label: Metro
Released: 1999
Duke Ellington -- A Centennial Collection
By North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra
Label: Metro
Released: 1999
North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra: Benny Goodman -- The Swing Collection
by Jack Bowers
During the Swing Era there were two clarinetists who stood above the rest, at least in terms of mass popularity — Artie Shaw and the King of Swing himself, Benny Goodman. Even though Goodman, who organized his first big band in 1934, has been gone for 13 years his popularity has seldom waned, and the music ...
North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra: Duke Ellington -- A Centennial Collection
by Jack Bowers
I’ve heard many tributes to Duke Ellington during the centennial year of his birth, but few that were more enjoyable than this impressive survey of his music by the relatively young and almost unknown North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra. It’s too bad that most people outside the Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill area, where the orchestra makes its home, ...
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