Results for "Mike Nelson"

Mike Nelson

The Big Pitch

By J. Frederick Millea

Label: Reconcile Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Stories to Tell; Forget About Her; Flyover Land; Angel in L.A.; The Museum; The Big Pitch; Love Songs; Why Do I?

The Steve Spiegl Big Band: The L.A. Sessions at Capitol Studios

by Jack Bowers
November 19, 2020

Almost every Monday morning for the past fifty years, composer-arranger Steve Spiegl convened his Los Angeles-based big band for a rehearsal session, assembling, for most of that time, at the Musicians Union in Hollywood and, more recently, at its new home in Burbank. When Spiegl decided in 2019 to pull up stakes and move northward to ...

Tim Davies Big Band: The Expensive Train Set

by Jack Bowers
October 5, 2016

Tim Davies, who led a big band in his native Australia before relocating to Los Angeles in 2000, reprises that experience on parts of The Expensive Train Set, returning home to supervise his Melbourne ensemble on four selections, presiding over his Los Angeles-based band on four others, and somehow managing to blend the two groups together ...