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Walsall

Little Steps

By Walsall

Label: WJO
Released: 2007
Track listing: Little Steps; Hassan

Walsall Jazz Orchestra: Little Steps

by Jack Bowers
June 4, 2007

Little Steps marks another sizable step forward for Great Britain's impressive Walsall Jazz Orchestra, now entering its teen years after spinning off from the Walsall Youth Jazz Orchestra in 1994. The WJO's third album focuses for the most part on music composed and arranged by its talented young pianist Tim Amann, who wrote four of the ...

Devil in the Detail

By Walsall

Label: WJO
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Devil Was in the Detail; Coincidence; The Nearness of You; Better Days Ahead; Birds in Flight; Funktional; Nothing and No One Else (47:33).

The Walsall Jazz Orchestra: Devil in the Detail

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

The Walsall Jazz Orchestra marks its twenty–fifth anniversary with Devil in the Detail, an impressive tour de force for founder / director John Hughes’ award–winning ensemble from the UK’s West Midlands. WJO, which began life in 1975 as the Walsall Youth Jazz Orchestra, has come a long way since then, performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival, ...