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The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: WJO
by Jack Bowers
On its self-titled debut album, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra offers the listener the best of two possible worlds--a thinking person's big band that also swings. There's a lot happening in these ten original compositions (including the two-part French-Canadian/Métis Suite), but the elaborate charts seldom interrupt the band's essential purpose, to present high-caliber music that is not ...
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
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, ...
