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Be Bop Big Band
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Compilation; Love Dance; Emily; I'm All for You; Perceptive Hindsight; Never Always; Some Bones of Contention; Strike Out the Band; Autumn in New York; Dearly Befuddled; An Apple for Christa; Baby Blues (77:31).
Tom Kubis Big Band: A Jazz Musician's Christmas
by Jim Santella
One of this era's finest big band arrangers also leads his own orchestra in Southern California. Loaded with talent and blessed with superb charts, Tom Kubis's band has assembled for an hour of holiday cheer in a session that both meets traditional expectations and provides a fresh look at the holiday season. Guests Pete ...
Dan McMillion Jazz Orchestra: Up Your Brass
by Jim Santella
Maybe it’s the combination of baritone saxophone with piercing brass. Or maybe it’s the array of fine soloists who each have something genuine to offer. Most likely, it’s the capable, high-soaring trumpet of leader Dan McMillion that makes this big band album so appealing. Their sound is superb, and the arrangements come from noted experts in ...
Carl Saunders: Be Bop Big Band
by AAJ Staff
Without a doubt this is the best big band to come along in many a year. The speed burners will knock your socks off, and the ballads will send romance wafting around like the sweet smell of Joy Perfume. The sections feature the best musicians in the business; the leader, trumpet virtuoso Carl ...
Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band: Big Swing
by Jim Santella
Among Japan’s leading voices in modern big band jazz, Kenichi Tsunoda’s ensemble celebrates its 10th anniversary with Big Swing. The leader, 51, attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston and paid his dues in the trombone section of three of Japan’s leading big bands: Toshiyuki Miyama’s New Herd, Nobu Hara’s Sharps & Flats, and the ...
The University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One: West Coasting
by Jack Bowers
West Coasting is, happily, another top–of–the–line album by the University of Northern Iowa’s superb Jazz Band One (its eleventh in the past eleven years), but, unhappily, its last under long–time director Bob Washut who is stepping aside after twenty–two years at the helm. UNI has risen under Washut’s guidance to a position as one of the ...
The Dan McMillion Jazz Orchestra: Up Your Brass
by Jack Bowers
Sound the trumpets! Dan McMillion’s explosive Florida–based Jazz Orchestra is back with another colorful scrapbook of straight–ahead big–band Jazz sketched in the image of his main men, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich and Woody Herman (if one must have role models he may as well choose the best). McMillion’s Maynard–like high–note trumpet, which produces sparks throughout the ...
The Texas Christian University Jazz Ensemble: Classic Mix
by Jack Bowers
Another first–class college–level Jazz Studies program (what else is new?), this one deep in the heart of Texas and making wonderful music on the third album we’ve heard under the baton of long–time director Curt Wilson. The TCU Jazz Ensemble is bolstered on “Everybody Loves My Baby” by the presence of pianist Shelly Berg and trombonist ...
The Tom Kubis Big Band: A Jazz Musician's Christmas
by Jack Bowers
A Jazz Musician’s Christmas is a reissue on Sea Breeze of (much of) two earlier albums by the Tom Kubis Big Band, It’s Not Just for Christmas Anymore! and You Just Can’t Have Enough Christmas. Those who may have overlooked one or both of them are sure to appreciate the reissue, which is guaranteed to put ...
