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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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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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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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Thought Trains

Label: Sons of Sound
Released: 2004
Track listing: Jump Down Spin Around, Big Sky, Waltz Medium, Thought Trains, Form x Mood, Let's Get Nice, Heart of the Matter, I Can See My Desk From Here

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How's That?

Label: Semi-Sweet Records
Released: 2003


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