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Montclair Women's Big Band

A decade is an eternity in the life of a jazz orchestra, but it’s not mere longevity that makes the Montclair Women’s Big Band 10th anniversary such a notable occasion. The Bay Area ensemble has set an enviable standard by every measure, serving as a potent rebuke to a scene that still often marginalizes female players. With a vivid cast of musical personalities, the MWBB combines an audacious sense of swing, tight ensemble work, and inspired solos. Led by veteran trumpeter Ellen Seeling (and assistant director, saxophonist Jean Fineberg), the group has become a magnet for ambitious women musicians, most of whom also lead their own bands

Montclair Women's Big Band to Appear at Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, on Fri. 5/7 in the Band's First Public Appearance of the Year

April 5, 2010

The Montclair Women's Big Band, led by veteran trumpeter Ellen Seeling (and assistant director, saxophonist Jean Fineberg), will fill the stage at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage on Friday, May 7, in the band's first public concert of 2010. For the first time in its 12-year existence, MWBB will perform without a vocalist. Instead, the group will ...

Montclair Women's Big Band

By Montclair Women's Big Band

Label: Pivotal Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Brownsville Express; For Once In My Life; River's Invitation; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Groovin' Hard; Teach Me Tonight; The Lady Is A Tramp; Quiet Nights; Taking A Chance On Love; Caravan; String Of Pearls; Filthy McNasty; Fly Me To The Moon; Pump It Up.

MWBB

By Montclair Women's Big Band

Label: Pivotal Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Brownsville Express; For Once in My Life; River

Montclair Women's Big Band: MWBB

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2006

Move over DIVA, SWOJO, Kit McClure, Maiden Voyage and other all-women big bands; you've got company. Even though the new kid on the block is only eight years old, she plays with perception and maturity well beyond her years. Born in Oakland, California and named in honor of that city's Montclair Women's Cultural Arts Club, she ...

Montclair Women's Big Band: Montclair Women's Big Band

by Edward Blanco
June 14, 2006

Referred to as one of the best-kept secrets in jazz, the Oakland-based Montclair Women's Big Band unveils fourteen classic jazz and blues standards on this self-titled debut album. Under the direction of trumpeter and bandleader Ellen Seeling, this seventeen-piece ensenmble plays regularly at the Montclair Women's Cultural Arts Club. The band is comprised of players from ...

Montclair Women's Big Band, Ellen Seeling Director

By Montclair Women's Big Band

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2005