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Article: Big Band Caravan

John Burnett Swing Orchestra / University of Missouri Concert Big Band / Either-Orchestra

Read "John Burnett Swing Orchestra / University of Missouri Concert Big Band / Either-Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers


John Burnett Swing OrchestraDown for DoubleDelmark2010 John Burnett, an Englishman who now lives and works (as a morning host at WDCB Radio) in suburban Chicago, is a great admirer of the golden age of big bands in the U.S., which spanned roughly three decades, from the 1930s through ...

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Quake

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Quake; Twist & Turn; Roc & A Soft Place; Here Comes The Sun; Note To Self; Thrushes; Ruby Tuesday.

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra

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Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orch. - 2/18 at Cachaca Sets at 9PM and 11PM

The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orch. - 2/18 at Cachaca Sets at 9PM and 11PM

2008 GRAMMY-nominated big band arranger (for “Smile" from his CD “First Flight" - Summit Records) Pete McGuinness leads his 16-piece Jazz Orchestra Monday night, February 18th at “Cachaca"jazz club, NYC (35 West 8th Street, between 5th and 6th Ave. Tel: 212-388-9099

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First Flight

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: First Flight; Smile; Infant Eyes; Come

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Label: Summit Records
Released: 2007
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Article: Album Review

The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: First Flight

Read "First Flight" reviewed by Edward Blanco


As a licensed pilot I have fond memories of the first time I took the controls of an airplane on my solo flight and the proud sense of accomplishment one feels when you've landed alive and relieved. That enormous sense of accomplishment is what I'm sure trombonist Pete McGuinness must have felt when he launched his ...

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Article: Album Review

The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: First Flight

Read "First Flight" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Pete McGuinness has been leading his own groups since the 1990s, but the closest he came to helming a big band was as co-leader of The Newyorkestra. He changed the pattern in September 2006 when he formed the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra which, later that year, he took into the recording studio. McGuinness shows ...

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Article: Album Review

Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: First Flight

Read "First Flight" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Trombonist/composer/arranger Pete McGuinness has twenty years on the New York jazz scene under his belt, playing with the Woody Herman Big Band (directed by Frank Tibieri) and the Maria Schneider Orchestra, alongside studies with trombonist Bob Brookmeyer and Manny Album. So it's no surprise that his first recording leading his Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, First Flight, ...

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Article: Album Review

The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: First Flight

Read "First Flight" reviewed by Jack Bowers


On the aptly named First Flight, the inaugural recording as leader of his own big band, Pete McGuinness does almost everything except drive the band bus and clean up the studio afterward--and I wouldn't doubt that he did that as well. McGuinness wrote six of the album's nine tunes, arranged them all, crafts likable trombone solos ...


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