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So Very Rob

Label: Faszination Musik
Released: 2004
Track listing: Autumn in New York; Confirmation; Street of Dreams; Peace / Blue Silver; So Very Rob; What Am I Here For; Sixth Sense; Stella by Starlight; Crazy Rhythm; A Child Is Born / Our Waltz; Things Ain

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Rob McConnell and the SWR Big Band: So Very Rob

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2004

Few big bands anywhere have a more far-reaching or well-deserved reputation for excellence than Germany’s SWR Big Band, which began life in the early ’50s as Erwin Lehn and his Southern Radio Dance Orchestra. When Lehn stepped aside in 1991 after forty years at the helm, the Stuttgart-based band didn’t miss a beat, swinging resiliently onward ...

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So Very Rob (Boss Brass Revisited)

By Rob McConnell

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2003

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Rob McConnell: Tentet

by Craig Jolley
February 1, 2001

Rob McConnell has trimmed his 17-piece Boss Brass to a streamlined tentet. Besides the advantage of economics the smaller band lends itself to extended soloing and to a flexible ensemble swing. McConnell's intelligently spaced voicings generally avoid the thin sound that sometimes comes out of cut-down bands. (The missing horns are most noticeable when a section ...

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Rob McConnell: Rob McConnell Tentet

Read "Rob McConnell Tentet" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

After decades of recording on a number of labels, including most recently a long stint with Concord, Rob McConnell is releasing once again another one of his almost-annual CD's. At the start of the millennium, he is recording for the first time on the Canadian label, Justin Time, appropriately enough.Recording Rob McConnell Tentet in ...

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Riffs I Have Known

By Rob McConnell

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2000

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Big Band Christmas

By Rob McConnell

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1998
Track listing: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas/I’ll Be Home for Christmas; Silver Bells/In the Bleak Mid–Winter; White Christmas/Let It Snow/Winter Wonderland; Away in a Manger; The Christmas Waltz; The Christmas Song; What Are You Doing New Years’ Eve?; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear/Silent Night; My Favorite Things; A Christmas Love Song; O Little Town of Bethlehem/Joy to the World.

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Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass: Big Band Christmas

Read "Big Band Christmas" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

Having recorded two recent theme–oriented albums for Concord Jazz ( Play the Jazz Classics, Even Canadians Get the Blues ) Rob McConnell and his valorous Boss Brass confront the definitive musical “theme” in a Big Band Christmas. The carols and other seasonal offerings, all expertly arranged by McConnell, are wonderfully recited by an ensemble that is ...

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Rob McConnell: Big Band Christmas

Read "Big Band Christmas" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
November 1, 1998

The clear precise intonation of Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass lends itself to Christmas music. And the swinging, fun-loving arrangements are a natural for any holiday season. Rob McConnell has put them together and the result is one swingin’ good time.Robert Murray Gordon McConnell founded the Boss Brass in 1968 as a working group for ...

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