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Underdog, and Other Stories ...

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Underdog; Aja; Time Was; Sanford and Son; Popeye; Baretta; Wild Wild West; Purple Gazelle; God Give Me Strength; The Odd Couple; Powerhouse; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Little Lulu.

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Underdog And Other Stories...

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Underdog; Aja; Time Was; Sanford and Son; Popeye; Theme from Baretta; Wild Wild West; Purple Gazelle; God Give Me Strength; The Odd Couple.

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Article: Album Review

Ed Palermo Big Band: Eddy Loves Frank

Read "Eddy Loves Frank" reviewed by Nic Jones


With the dubious benefit of hindsight, it could be argued that Frank Zappa's music could--and on the basis of this release can still be--defined by what it's not. Zappa was both astute and knowing enough to realize that both progressive and jazz rock could easily become stylistic straitjackets. His music was reflective of this knowledge as ...

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Article: Album Review

Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet: Underdog, and Other Stories ...

Read "Underdog, and Other Stories ..." reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


Sometimes, a name is all it takes to get attention. Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet has such a name. But the name alone doesn't necessarily mean good quality. The band still has to play, and play they do on Underdog, and Other Stories .... The ensemble is comprised of Kooshian on piano, Jeff ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Ed Palermo Big Band: Eddy Loves Frank

Read "Ed Palermo Big Band: Eddy Loves Frank" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The Ed Palermo Big BandEddy Loves FrankCuneiform Records2009 Saxophonist and bandleader Ed Palermo loves Frank Zappa, and not just a little bit. It's not only the transcribing of 200 Zappa tunes, the scores of concerts where Palermo has led his big band through the late Zappa's music, nor ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation

Read "Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...

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Article: Album Review

Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet: Underdog And Other Stories...

Read "Underdog And Other Stories..." reviewed by Mark Corroto


Ignore the fact that pianist Ted Kooshian regularly covers cartoon and TV music in his quartet and what's left is an appreciation for music that swings exceptionally hard, and a passion for each tune that is anything but “animated." Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet has produced its second volume of music, Underdog And Other Stories..., following a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet at the Iridium in New York City

Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet at the Iridium in New York City

Pianist, composer, and bandleader Ted Kooshian will be performing with his Standard Orbit Quartet at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. Performance on August 26th, 2009 in celebration of his new release on Summit Records titled Underdog and other Stories. Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet is out of this world! - ...

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Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Top Cat; Black Dog; Captain Kangaroo; Message In A Bottle; Spider-Man; The Simpsons; Batman; Buffy The Vampire Slayer; Baubles, Bangles and Beads; Don't Give Up; Bullitt.

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Article: Album Review

Ted Kooshian: Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet

Read "Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


Getting past the sci-fi cover artwork of this album, there's some pretty diverting jazz within. Pianist Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet has a different spin on the music. The thematic concept is to play music from animated Saturday morning television science fiction broadcasts of yore. In order to complement the aforementioned seven themes, Kooshian his group ...


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