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The Next Stage

Label: Big and Phat Jazz Productions
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Next Stage; The T and the Charles - Homage to Jimmy Giuffre; Funkissimo; No Answers, More Questions; Turnaround; Scrooge; Lydian Legacy, part one - Homage to George Russell; Lydian Legacy, part two - Homage to George Russell; Dances with Drums; Elegy for Jeff.

The New World Jazz Composers Octet: The Next Stage

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 31, 2021

The jazz octet has long been somewhat of a “Swiss Army Knife" for composer-arrangers. Consider, for example, the great Dave Pell, Ornette Coleman, David Murray, and the J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding Octets. In the hands of great arrangers, the eight-piece format allows arrangers to leverage the flexibility and creativity of a “Messengers" frontline with the ...