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Millikin University

Swingin' Night and Day

By Millikin University

Label: First Step
Released: 2001
Track listing: Big Dipper; Moonlight in Vermont; Freedom Jazz Dance; The Way You Look Tonight; Sail Away; In a Mellow Tone; Dear Old Stockholm; Body and Soul; Night and Day (41:52).

The Millikin University Jazz Band 1: Swingin' Night and Day

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

If you’re gonna be swingin’ night and day (or either of the above), you’d better have a pretty good drummer to lead the way. Fortunately, Millikin University’s Jazz Band 1 has a trustworthy timekeeper in Greg Fundis, and its second CD in the last half–dozen years scurries smartly along behind his admirable stick and brushwork and ...

Easy to Love

By Millikin University

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Released: 1998

Millikin University Jazz Lab 1: Easy to Love

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

When assessing any big band, the tried–and–true standards can serve as convenient benchmarks. There are a number of them on Easy to Love, which the Millikin University Jazz Ensemble recorded in May 1995. What they (and the lesser–known numbers) show is an eager group of young people who have mastered the Jazz fundamentals and seem reasonably ...