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The Mike Vax Big Band Featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra: Sounds from the Road
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The traveling autobus--the road to the road--has frequently been used as a symbolic metaphor in movies, books, commercials and, of course, songs of all kinds. Bus travel seems to have an oddly romantic element. In the halcyon days of the barnstorming big bands, bus and car travel were the only direct ways to get to the ...
Vaxuosity
By Mike Vax
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Hungarian Melodies; Carnival Variations; Trumpeter's Prayer; Josephine; Dramatic Essay; The Man with the Horn; Vaxuosity; Dynamica; Cornucopia; Double Concerto, Allegro; Trumpeter's Lullabye; Braziliance; Yankee Doodle; Danny Boy.
Mike Vax / Ohlone Wind Ensemble: Vaxuosity
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Aficionados of the 1960s TV series The Twilight Zone will remember an episode wherein a harried business exec regularly dream “visited" a tranquil, turn-of-the century nirvana called “Willoughby." There, before technology reigned supreme, times were much slower, calmer and the town's concert band gave weekly Sunday afternoon concerts to adoring audiences. While no ...
Prescott Jazz Summit is Annual Festival in Northern Arizona
By Patricia Myers The annual Prescott Jazz Summit, August 22-24, has the theme “A Jazz Party of the First Order" and will be staged in northern Arizona's cool, pine-studded mountain region. Events will be indoors and on historic Courthouse Square, site of the original state capital, a two-hour drive from the Phoenix airport. “The festival will ...
The Mike Vax Big Band: Next Stop: Live... On the Road
By Mike Vax
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: On the Street Where You Live; Young Blood; Pegasus; Appearing in Cleveland; Young and Foolish; My Foolish Heart; Intermission Riff; Vax Attacks; We Miss You Dickus; The Party
The Mike Vax Big Band: Next Stop: Live... On the Road
by Jack Bowers
The Mike Vax Big Band Next Stop: Live... On the Road Summit Records 2005 Word is that the days when lesser-known big bands boarded buses and traveled from town to town in a series of grueling one-night stands are gone forever. Happily for those who appreciate live big-band ...
Live... On the Road
By Mike Vax
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: Speak Low; Here
Mike Vax Big Band: Live... On The Road
by Jim Santella
Featuring alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra and original music in the Kenton style, Mike Vax’s big band recorded Live... On The Road while on tour through Pennsylvania two years ago. A significant number of exciting soloists and fresh musical arrangements make the show quite successful. What defines the Kenton sound? ...
The Mike Vax Big Band: Live... On the Road
by Jack Bowers
For anyone who missed the “big band era” and is wondering what all the fuss was about, the Mike Vax Big Band’s Live . . . On the Road should be required listening. In a more enlightened world it would be the music of choice for many others as well, but we’ll let that pass. Suffice ...
