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Rich Willey: Down & Dirty

Read "Down & Dirty" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
August 21, 2019

Back in 2001, trumpeter/composer/educator Rich Willey released a critically acclaimed album titled Gone with the Piggies (CAP Records). As a result, a savvy audience has followed him cult-like ever since. With Down and Dirty, the former Maynard Ferguson standout delivers a bacchanalia presentation both as player and composer, surrounded by a unit of Los Angeles' finest ...

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Rich Willey's Boptism Big Band: Down & Dirty

Read "Down & Dirty" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 21, 2019

What's in a name? While that maxim remains a matter for debate, don't let this particular name mislead you. In the parlance of trumpeter Rich Willey's Los Angeles-based Boptism Big Band, Down & Dirty translates into well-scrubbed & swinging. There's really no better way to describe the performance of eleven of Willey's wide-ranging compositions and one ...

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Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band / Gerald Wilson Orchestra / Knoxville Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
August 11, 2011

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat BandThat's How We RollTelarc2010 After more than a decade of making beautiful music at home, on the road and in the studio, Gordon Goodwin's irrepressible Big Phat Band keeps rolling merrily along, burning rubber on its sixth free-wheeling recording (and first for Telarc Records). ...

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Bob Florence Limited Edition / Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band / Dana Legg Stage Band / John Burnett Swing Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
August 3, 2009

Bob Florence Limited Edition Legendary MAMA 2009 “Legendary" is a word that is often misused and shamelessly over-used, and in this case entirely appropriate. Even though composer / arranger / pianist Bob Florence is no longer with us, and wasn't in the studio when his Limited Edition recorded ...

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Gone With The Piggies

By Rich Willey

Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1, Gone With The Wind (Allie Wrubel) 2. I Know, Y’Know (Rich Willey) 3. My Melancholy Baby (Burnett/Norton/Bregman) 4. Laird Baird (Charlie Parker) 5. Little Treasures (Rich Willey) 6. Sonny Boy (Henderson/DeSylva/Brown) 7. Squeetz (Rich Willey) 8. Eclypso (Tommy Flanagan) 9. Eyes All For You (Rich Willey) 10. Elora (J.J. Johnson) 11. Piggies (George Harrison)