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The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra

The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: Trench Heroes / Monday in the City

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2002

These two albums, recorded three years apart, provide at least a cursory glance at the continuing development of San Francisco’s aptly named Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. Trench Heroes was taped in ’98 during a “road gig” at Yoshi’s nightclub across the Bay bridge in Oakland, CA, Monday in the City last December on the orchestra’s “home field,” ...

Live at Pearl's

By The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra

Label: Cooperative Media
Released: 2000
Track listing: Tomorrow

The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: Live at Pearl's

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2000

The San Francisco–based Contemporary Jazz Orchestra’s debut album was recorded in November ’96 during a performance at Pearl’s nightclub in the city by the bay. The orchestra gets right down to business with a gritty rendition of Frank Foster’s “Tomorrow’s Blues Today” and remains in top–notch form throughout the rest of the concert, which includes Bronislaw ...

Kef's Pool

By Gary Wofsey

Label: Ambi Records
Released: 1980
Track listing: Slaughter On Tenth Avenue; Birth Without Violence; Close To The Edge; Kef's Pool; Afro Jewish Cuban Latin Mother; New York Scuffle;