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Nova Jazz Orchestra

Nova Jazz Orchestra: Concerto Nova & the Jazz Music of W.A. Mathieu

By Nova Jazz Orchestra

Label: Nova Jazz
Released: 2014
Track listing: Concerto Nova; Silhouette; Keeps; Magic Lantern; I’m Beginning to See the Light; The Whole Man; Blues News.

Nova Jazz Orchestra: Concerto Nova & the Jazz Music of W.A. Mathieu

by Jack Bowers
February 6, 2014

The Nova Jazz Orchestra, which was founded in the twin cities of Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN, more than two decades ago and has been on an upward curve ever since, was formally introduced to the music of W.A. Mathieu--now fondly known to members of the orchestra as “Uncle Billy"--in 2011as part of the two-CD set ...

Take Five With Adam Meckler

by AAJ Staff
August 31, 2009

Meet Adam Meckler: Trumpeter, composer and educator Adam Meckler graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI in 2007 with a degree in trumpet performance and an emphasis in jazz studies. He was a member of LU's Down Beat award-winning Jazz Ensemble (2007) and studied privately under the direction of critically acclaimed composer and educator Fred Sturm. ...

Nova Jazz Orchestra: In a Lucid Moment

by Jack Bowers
December 26, 2006

This is the fifth album by the Nova Jazz Orchestra, at least three of which have been recorded live at O'Gara's nightclub in St. Paul, Minnesota. If anyone doubts that this one is live, he or she need only listen to Ted Godbout's wimpy piano. Not a knock on Godbout, of course, but in-studio pianos are, ...