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University of Colorado Jazz Ensemble 1

University of Colorado Jazz Ensemble 1: CU Over the Rainbow

by Jack Bowers
December 7, 2006

Over the past five years the University of Colorado's Jazz Studies program has earned no less than 13 Student Music Awards from Down Beat magazine. I say “earned because (a) the competition is gaining strength each year; and (b) this is one close-knit and hardworking group of undergrads, as one can readily verify on CU Over ...

Waking Up the Flatirons

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Released: 1998

University of Colorado Jazz Ensemble 1: Waking Up the Flatirons

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

The Flatirons, I believe, are the mountains adjacent to Boulder, Colorado, and the 1997–98 editions of UC’s Jazz Ensemble 1 under director Greg Carroll strive earnestly to awaken them with this clamorous and colorful studio session that encompasses music composed by Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Bob Mintzer, Maria Schneider and Michael Brecker, among others. The ensemble ...