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Tales from Viet-nam

Label: World Records
Released: 2002

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Article: Album Review

Jazz guitarist and composer Nguyen Le has played with the French National Jazz Orchestra, the WDR Big Band with composer/conductor Vince Mendoza, and with several trios he assembled himself. In Tales from Viet-nam, he set out to blend jazz fusion with traditional Vietnamese music and musicians. This project offered a cultural examination of Le's family roots, ...

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Swinging Musical Showcase

By Mart Kenney

Label: World Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Duke Ellington Medley; Cool, Really Cool; Berkeley Square; Big Band Broadcast Blues;

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Mart Kenney and the New Ballroom Orchestra: Swinging Musical Showcase

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2000

Mart Kenney, Canada’s answer to Benny Carter, has been playing the saxophone for more than seventy of his ninety years and leading a dance band nearly as long, having formed Mart Kenney’s Western Gentlemen in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the early ’30s before he was old enough to vote. March 12, 2000, was designated “Mart Kenney ...