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Open Window / Flying Colors

Label: Mizzou Jazz
Released: 2016
Track listing: Open Window -- Great Plains; Open Window; Frim Fram Sauce; Widow’s Walk; It Could Happen to You; Northwest Plaza; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; Samba do Vento; Last Stop. Flying Colors -- Sweet Baby Sam; Lakewood and Wayne; Das Americas; Coalescence; Closing Time; Ballad of Daniella IV; Beatrice; Megan’s Dance; Flying Colors.

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University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band: Open Window / Flying Colors

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by Jack Bowers
July 22, 2016

Here are two recent studio recordings by the well-disciplined University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band under director Arthur White, the first (Open Window) from 2014, the second (Flying Colors) from 2016. Tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene and trumpeter Sean Jones are special guests on Window, vibraphonist Mike Mainieri and trumpeter Randy Brecker on Colors. ...

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Home: The Columbia, MO Sessions, Vol. 1

By University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band

Label: Mizzou Jazz
Released: 2014
Track listing: Disc 1 — Bump and Grind; At Dawn of Day; Groob; Cats and Kittens; Orange County; Away from Home. Disc 2 — 6th Street Swing; Never Saw, Close Hummingbird Friend; Happily Ever After; Sabor a Mi; Signing; Frisco Follies.

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University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band: Home: The Columbia, MO Sessions, Vol. 1

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by Jack Bowers
January 15, 2014

An observation worth repeating: college jazz ensembles keep getting better and better. And that's a good thing. Furthermore, they no longer reside for the most part in larger cities on the east or west coasts, but are emerging more often in such mid-sized hamlets as, say, Columbia, MO, better known for jump shots and touchdowns than ...