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The Jazz Big Band Graz

Urban Folktales

By The Jazz Big Band Graz

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: Urban Tribes; Seelenbaumein; Space Trip--The Day We Landed; High Voltage; Reve Africain (Part One: The Dream; Part Two: The Revelation); Coming Home.

Jazz Bigband Graz: Urban Folktales

by Bruce Lindsay
April 27, 2012

Despite the inherent problems of managing large numbers of musicians, funding their activities, and finding venues large enough to host ensembles of 15-plus players, the jazz big band is undergoing something of a revival. Jazz Bigband Graz, from Austria, is yet another fine ensemble from Europe, and Urban Folktales shows that imaginative new directions in big ...

Plays the Music of Bob Brookmeyer

By The Jazz Big Band Graz

Label: Mons Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Q & A; Eleven; Wedding Song; Tulip; Romance for One; Over Here (54:06).

The Jazz Big Band Graz: Plays the Music of Bob Brookmeyer

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2002

Now in his seventies, feisty Bob Brookmeyer has nothing to prove to anyone about his virtuosity as composer, arranger or valve trombonist - but he keeps on doing it anyway, ably supported in this instance by Germany's world­class Jazz Big Band Graz. Brookmeyer, once a hard­core bopper who played with and wrote for the likes of ...

Here & There: The Music of Ed Neumeister

By The Jazz Big Band Graz

Label: Mons Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Here & There; E.S.P.; Alice in Wonderland; Longing; The Right Tree; My Shining Hour; Locomotion (60:19).

The Jazz Big Band Graz: Here & There: The Music of Ed Neumeister

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2001

Programming is an essential part of any recording endeavor, but one that too often is slighted. This new release by Austria’s Jazz Big Band Graz is a case in point; a generally commendable album whose weakest track is for reasons unknown placed first. And to compound the misstep, trombonist Ed Neumeister’s “Here & There” runs for ...