Big Band / Swing - CD Reviews (348)
Omaha Nebraska resident and saxophonist Bill Wimmer has collaborated with Vail, CO., keyboardist/vocalist Tony Gulizia for years. And with prominent New York jazz stars, gu…
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Recorded live in Vail, Colorado on May 13 and 14, 2008 at Kelly Liken, Project Omaha purrs with a swing-jazz versing and hip shaking samba tassels pinwheeling the…
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11 Jan
Count Basie Swiss Radio Days, Vol. 19: Mustermesse Basel, 1956 Part 1 by Count Basie Orchestra
In the nineteenth installment of their Swiss Radio Days series, TCB Music showcases the Count Basie Orchestra in their 1956 live recording from a concert in Basel, Switz…
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Problem: You’ve got a function you need to supply a powerful swingin’ big band for, but you can only come up with the scratch to pay ten guys (and/or gals,) and a conduc…
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Make no mistake about it, Al Hood is a great trumpeter. Able to play the most demanding conceptualizations his improvisational jazz oriented mind can think up with the u…
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Why cover some of the best singers ever with relaxed arrangements that don't even try to outshine the originals? "Fly Me to the Moon" without Sinatra, Basie or the Quinc…
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Saxophonist/composer/arranger Bob Mintzer has enjoyed a prolific career as a sideman to the likes of Jaco Pastorius, and longtime member of the contemporary jazz group The …
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Saxophonist/composer/arranger Bob Mintzer has enjoyed a prolific career as a sideman to the likes of Jaco Pastorius, and longtime member of the contemporary jazz group The …
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With his fourth release as a leader, composer/pianist Mike Holober reaffirms his spiraling presence within modern jazz circles, to augment his role as a first-call sessi…
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Step into the Wayback Machine for a history lesson: Once upon a time there was a genre known as Western Swing it was an all-American mutant music, an amalgam of the "Wes…
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The inclusion of poetry in the middle of a mariachi-themed jazz CD is quite unusual. Multi- instrumentalist George McClure releases Playboy Swing 2 with a host …
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There will, most likely, never be another vibraphonist with the musicality and historical significance of Lionel Hampton. A consummate performer, artist, entertainer and…
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It’s about time someone created a superior third-stream jazz recording in the 21st century. The Budapest Jazz Orchestra Meets Kálmán Oláh, Images, is that disc. P…
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West of State Street / East of Harlem presents The John Burnett Swing Orchestra at a Sunday gig in February 2008 at Fitzgerald's in Berwyn, Illinois, where the band …
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Pianist, composer and conductor Carla Bley returns to the big band format after releasing two small group dates; The Lost Chords (2004) and The Lost Chords …
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Jazz fans that are also history buffs know that once upon a time, jazz was actually a type of.... [deep breath] popular music. In the 1950’s, even afte…
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Around the time my good buddy, Richie "LaBamba" Rosenberg asked me to produce and engineer "Grapefruit Moon, the Songs of Tom Waits," I had been listening to "Sinatra's Swi…
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Whit Williams is an iconic Baltimore jazz musician, having been a fixture in the city for over fifty years as a reed player, arranger, and educator. Naturally, he's work…
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CNY Jazz Orchestra is the flagship program formed by the Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation. The group’s debut album, Then, Now & Again is a collection of mode…
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The 2-disc set entitled Harriet Tubman from the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra is a fusion of American swing, scat, blues, gospel, and spiritual/soul jazz. In the t…
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