Big Band / Swing - CD Reviews (348)
The Duke Ellington Legacy set one goal for themselves as a big band and that is to preserve the ideals of the late, great jazz pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington, who…
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Manchester Craftsmen's Guild continues to release topnotch jazz CDs, and among them is the Grammy Award winning Bob Mintzer Big Band in a live recording. The sound is clear…
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Working out of the New York City metropolitan area, Swingadelic is, roughly, a 10-piece dance little big band. Specializing in swing, the ensemble has capitalized on the…
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Michael Dease is a leader. With Dease Bones he has developed a unique common sound from a group of stellar trombonists whose individual solo voices are divers…
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Washington D.C. based drummer and band leader, Brooks Tegler, who's played on over a hundred recordings and is the 2004 recipient of the Wammie Award for best Jazz/Swing…
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Drummer Louie Bellson and trumpeter Clark Terry bring out the big band sound of days gone by and let it shine brightly in their latest collaboration Louie & Clark Exp…
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Composer, trombonist, educator and leader of the Jazz Composer’s Workshop Orchestra, Mike Treni did his schooling at both the Berklee College of Music and the University…
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I have just come from a screening of a new film Duke Ellington Live In ’58. Obviously, it’s not new. This is a DVD by the Jazz Icon folks, a buried treasure that was…
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Music director/trumpeter and pianist Sam Lussier provides his modus operandi on a per track basis within the CD insert text for this divergent set of arrangements of ori…
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You know the way you get a tune stuck in your head and it plays over and over again until it drives you crazy? Well, that’s apparently what happened to Gerald Wilson.
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The Westchester Jazz Orchestra consists of seventeen premiere jazz musicians living or working in the suburbs just north of New York City. Finally, after performing for …
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Gary Tole and Legends of Swing is dedicated to bringing new life to big band classics from the swing era decades back. Shining up these jazz gems, Tole leads a solid band c…
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It is standard procedure for university music departments to create promotional materials in order to showcase, explain and elucidate on a given major or program. For en…
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Glimmer of Night & Day is not the first CD by Texas Tech University’s Jazz Ensemble One under the direction of Alan Shinn. Their CD Seein' the Light...Hearin' …
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Mike Barone, a trombone king, a big band leader, a composer, an arranger, a dedicated jazz artist, driving his big band to glory. His newest album, By Request -- the…
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It's rare these days to find a big band out on the road but there are many back home in the neighborhoods. It helps if the neighborhood is a stone's throw from New York Cit…
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23 Apr
Blues Man From Memphis -- more from the Musical Mind of Donald Brown by Knoxville Jazz Orchestra
Educator, pianist, and one-time member of Art Blakey’s fabled Jazz Messengers, this endeavor showcases Donald Brown’s formidable compositional acumen. He’s the pianist a…
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Composer, bandleader, bass player, and jazz educator Graham Collier has propelled the British jazz scene since the 1960s. His passion for live jazz and the interaction o…
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This 2005 New Year’s Eve show recorded at the Blue Note in Tokyo offers the best of the Mingus Big Band. Here are Eddie Henderson, Jack Walrath (who was with Mingus in T…
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High Octane and firing on all cylinders, this new CD release by big band leader and trumpeter Dan McMillion pushes his Jazz Orchestra well past the stratosphere. Pay…
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