Results for "Nebraska Jazz Orchestra"

Nebraska Jazz Orchestra

Nebraska Jazz Orchestra: NJO 40

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2017

NJO 40, the latest CD by the superlative Nebraska Jazz Orchestra, salutes the NJO's first forty years by presenting a series of in-concert recordings taped between 2010-15 whose roster of guest soloists on Tracks 1-10 reads like a who's who of renowned jazz artists from coast to coast. Tack on exemplary charts by Tom Kubis, Eric ...

Christmas Jazz

By Nebraska Jazz Orchestra

Label: American Music Corporation
Released: 1999

Nebraska Jazz Orchestra: Christmas Jazz

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1999

While I hesitate to use the word “best” when referring to music (as one too often has to swallow and digest that word), I can’t resist observing that the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra opens Christmas Jazz with the best arrangement of “The Little Drummer Boy” I’ve ever heard. It’s by the band’s talented young guitarist, transplanted Vermonter ...