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The Howard University Jazz Ensemble: Grace Notes: HUJE 2004

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2005

There's a lot to be said for continuity. The Howard University Jazz Ensemble, formed thirty years ago, has had only one director, Fred Irby III. For 29 of those years, Irby has taken the ensemble into a recording studio to produce an album, the most recent of which is Grace Notes, or HUJE 2004. Although the ...

HUJE 2003

By The Howard University Jazz Ensemble

Label: HUJE
Released: 2004
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The Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2003

by Jack Bowers
June 8, 2004

The Howard University Jazz Enemble has been recording once every year almost since its inception in 1975, invariably producing albums that are sharp and persuasive, and HUJE 2003 is certainly no exception. While the personnel changes from season to season, as it does in any university-level band, the one constant is director Fred Irby III, who ...

HUJE '02

By The Howard University Jazz Ensemble

Label: HUJE
Released: 2003
Track listing: For the Victims and Survivors of September 11 (Gotham City / An International Rage); Come Sunday; Sylogism; It Don

The Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE '02

by Jack Bowers
August 25, 2003

For more than two decades the Howard University Jazz Ensemble has affirmed its prowess with an annual recording, but HUJE ’02 is far more earnest and impassioned than the enterprises that preceded it. Recorded a little more than seven months after the world-shaking events of September 11, ’01, the album opens with an homage to the ...

HUJE 2001

By The Howard University Jazz Ensemble

Label: HUJE
Released: 2002
Track listing: For God So Loved the World; Trinkle Tinkle; Mornin’; African Sunrise; Chelsea Bridge; Beautiful Love; Nancy; Shorter Story (Witch Hunt / Infant Eyes / Black Nile); It’s All Right with Me; Ruby My Dear; Love Is Where You Are; You’ll Hear About Me Soon (67:05).

The Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2001

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2002

Another year, another marvelous CD by the Howard University Jazz Ensemble, continuing a tradition that began in 1976, one year after the ensemble was established by Fred Irby III who remains its director. As usual, Irby draws inspiration from a broad variety of sources with compositions by Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter and Billy Strayhorn rubbing shoulders ...

HUJE 2000

By The Howard University Jazz Ensemble

Label: HUJE
Released: 2001
Track listing: Child Gone Wild; Prayer for the Children; The Other Side of the Story; Lover Man; Loving You Has Been an Ecstasy; Nefertiti; Lament; A Key Would Be Nice; Overjoyed; Gingerbread Boy; What a Wonderful World; Firm Roots; Recordame (68:06).

The Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2000

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

Another year, another album by Washington, DC’s splendid Howard University Jazz Ensemble, which has been making these annual pilgrimages to the recording studio for more than two decades. It’s a wonderful idea, one that not only gives these young musicians something to look forward to but keeps them on their toes and eager to excel as ...