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Article: Big Band Caravan

Mike Vax Big Band / Dave Siebels / Phil Woods / London Horn Sound

by Jack Bowers
May 4, 2009

Mike Vax Big Band Sounds from the Road Summit Records 2009 As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby entertained millions with their “road" movies in the 1940s, so the Mike Vax Big Band has its own “road show," arguably as entertaining but playing to much smaller audiences than Hope ...

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Article: Album Review

Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra: El Viaje

Read "El Viaje" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
April 5, 2009

Bassist Pedro Giraudo has created an excellent program of tone poems that come alive through his 12-piece orchestra. Dedicated to his wife and infant daughter, most of the compositions relate his feelings on becoming a father and assuming new responsibilities. He explains in his liner notes that the event was a major turning point in his ...

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Article: Live Review

The Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra Premieres "Campo"

by Eric Benson
March 13, 2009

Pedro Giraudo Jazz Gallery New York, NY March 6, 2009 Big band jazz is an out-of-date form, its heyday having come in the boom-and-bust interwar years, and any modern-day revival must grapple with its inherent anachronism. Some current big bands try to ignore their historical awkwardness, employing the form ...