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I Remember You

Label: Master Source
Released: 2002
Track listing: A Little Minor Booze; Europa; Eurydice; I Remember You; You Are So Beautiful; The Singing Oyster; Yesterdays; Fata Morgana; Makin' Whoopee; Peanut Vendor; Along Came Bill; Samba Da Gamba

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Mike Vax Big Band: I Remember You

Read "I Remember You" reviewed by William Grim


Subtitled "A Musical Tribute to Stan Kenton, Johnny Richards and Dick Shearer," this album features alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in some of the finest big band performances recorded anywhere. Although Kenton's will forbade "ghost bands" (like those that endlessly repeat the music of Glenn Miller), trumpeter Mike Vax ...

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The Mike Vax Jazz Orchestra: BigBandJazz.Net

Read "BigBandJazz.Net" reviewed by Jim Santella


Big band jazz has always been easy for the listener to bond with. It’s a familiar format. Some part of our backgrounds usually tugs at the thought of a solid team working together like that. These are artists who’ve trained together and who have continued, over the years, to maintain a forum where inexperienced jazz performers ...

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The Mike Vax Jazz Orchestra: bigbandjazz.net

Read "bigbandjazz.net" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Trumpeter Mike Vax has come up with an interesting idea, using his latest album to promote the web site bigbandjazz.net, which in turn promotes the Oakland, CA–based non–profit group Friends of Big Band Jazz (FBBJ), whose worthy goal is to help keep big–band Jazz alive for future generations. FBBJ supports and promotes performances by the MVJO, ...

Album

Trumpets (On A Jazz Mission)

Label: Love Records
Released: 2001

Album

Creepin' With Clark

Label:
Released: 2000
Track listing: Serenade to a Bus Seat; Just a Simple Waltz; Royal Street Shuffle; Creole Love Call; Sweet Emma; Struttin

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Mike Vax: Creepin' With Clark

Read "Creepin' With Clark" reviewed by Jim Santella


Recorded last September 1-2 in New York, this sextet session features three horn players who’ve spent their professional careers expressing with tone quality in residence at the top of their priority lists. Each has achieved a clean, overtone-rich timbre that allows the artist to perform a wide variety of music that always sounds beautiful. What separates ...

Album

Alternate Route

Label: Enja Records
Released: 1999

Album

I Remember You

Label: Master Communications Group
Released: 1998

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Mike Vax Big Band: I Remember You

Read "I Remember You" reviewed by Jack Bowers


This affectionate tribute to Stan Kenton (and to composer/arranger Johnny Richards and trombonist Dick Shearer) by trumpeter Mike Vax and the “Kenton Alumni Band" was recorded onstage at the 25th anniversary Morningside (Iowa) College Jazz Festival in February 1997. It has the reverberant ambiance of a concert date too, which is especially noticeable in the sound ...


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