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The George Gee Big Band

The George Gee Big Band: Settin' the Pace

by Elliott Simon
May 6, 2005

Although they're not typically household names, a strong case can be made that no single group has had more of an influence on the sound of American music than arrangers. One thing that can't be disputed though, is that the arranger is front and center when it comes to big band swing. A first-person participatory tribute ...

Settin' the Pace

By The George Gee Big Band

Label: GJazz Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Out of Nowhere; Settin' the Pace; Lover Come Back to Me; In a Sentimental Mood; Mambo Inn; Ready Now That You Are GG; Bass in Yo' Face; The Very Thought of You; When Your Lover Has Gone; Autumn Leaves; I Don't Want to Learn to Sing the Blues; Scrapple from the Apple (59:31)

The George Gee Big Band: Settin' the Pace

by Jack Bowers
September 25, 2004

George Gee, big band jazz's answer to the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going and going and going... The diminutive New York-based dynamo leads at least two and perhaps as many as four bands. For the neo-swing crowd there's the Jump Jive and Wailers; for dancers there's the Make Believe Ballroom Orchestra; for those who lean toward ...