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Nashville Jazz Orchestra

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NASHVILLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA (Pictured above, in concert at B.B. King's in Nashville, with guest vocalist, Annie Sellick) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Conversation with Jim Williamson, Founder and Director of the Nashville Jazz Orchestra By Courtenay Shipley I had the pleasure of interviewing Jim Williamson of the Nashville Jazz Orchestra and a fixture of Nashville this week. We talked about the upcoming concert with Kirk Whalum at Blair School of Music on the 17th and about the NJO's mission for bringing more big band music to the community. Jim, what's not in your formal bio? Give us a snapshot of you and how you found your way to jazz. Well, my dad was a band director and I played the trumpet from as far back as I remember ��" I loved the sound so much I would sneak off to play the horn as a child

It Ain't Necesssarily So

By Nashville Jazz Orchestra

Label: Music City Jazz
Released: 2014
Track listing: Cuban Overture; But Not for Me; My Man’s Gone Now; Prelude No. 2; It Ain’t Necessarily So; Someone to Watch Over Me; Summertime; How Long Has This Been Going On.

Nashville Jazz Orchestra: It Ain't Necesssarily So

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2014

This splendid debut recording by the Nashville Jazz Orchestra is subtitled “New Twists on Gershwin Classics." No argument there, starting with the picturesque “Cuban Overture" from 1932 and encompassing a trio of songs from the folk opera Porgy and Bess, which premiered three years later. Also on the bill of fare are the standards “But Not ...