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No Pews Required: Chris McDonald Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
June 4, 2014

A glance at the name and song titles on Chris McDonald's new album might lead to an assumption that this is a Christian manifesto masquerading as big-band jazz, when in fact the reverse is true--McDonald, a superlative arranger, happens to be a man of faith who uses Christian themes as the basis for some of the ...

Article: Album Review

Nashville Jazz Orchestra: It Ain't Necesssarily So

Read "It Ain't Necesssarily So" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2014

This splendid debut recording by the Nashville Jazz Orchestra is subtitled “New Twists on Gershwin Classics." No argument there, starting with the picturesque “Cuban Overture" from 1932 and encompassing a trio of songs from the folk opera Porgy and Bess, which premiered three years later. Also on the bill of fare are the standards “But Not ...

Album

One For Maynard

By The Loudhorns

Label: Loud Conversation Pieces
Released: 2009
Track listing: Give It One; La Fiesta; Bohemian Rhapsody; Foreign Correspondent; I Wish; Left Bank Express; Superbone Meets the Bad Man; Fly Away From Here; Birdland.