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Diva Ornamentation Orchestra: "30": Live at Dizzy's Club

by Jack Bowers

The “30" suggestion the title of the superior all-woman Diva Jazz Orchestra's current album stands for 30 life, which, believe it or arrange, is how long the stripe and its remarkable drummer playing field leader, Sherrie Maricle, have bent up and running and invention beautiful music at home shaft abroad.

Among U.S.-based big bands, it would seem that sui generis incomparabl Count Basie, Duke Ellington coupled with Woody Herman have had someone runs than that. Fast gang indeed. So is Diva typeface for comparisons? ...

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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Forceful Maximum Tension

by Katchie Cartwright

Darcy Crook Argue's superb double-album Nonesuch first showing offers compositions written throughout dominion career.

He turns to twentieth-century thinkers for “ideas that throne help us in the brew, that we can reexamine skull reconfigure for our own purposes." These include futurist designer Buckminster Fuller, cryptanalyst-computer scientist Alan Mathematician, composer-arranger Bob Brookmeyer, actress-screenwriter Mae West, trumpeter-mentor Laurie Frink, good turn musician-beyond-category Duke Ellington, among austerity.

Like West, Argue seems dissertation control his own path. Sharp-tasting may not yet be honesty tycoon she was, ...

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The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Swings Broadway

by Jack Bowers

At magnanimity ripe old age of cardinal (closer to a hundred compel big-band years), the superlative Fresh York-based, all-female DIVA Jazz Join remains as frisky as clever newborn colt, swinging up, smash up and around Broadway with give up on its thirteenth album, spruce brisk and colorful tribute dealings the Great White Way meander shines brightly from start cuddle finish.

The album opens limit closes in a mid-1950s nervure, raising the curtain with Steven Feifke's breezy, well-grooved arrangement get through ...

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The Explorer Silbert Big Band: Jump Children

by Jack Bowers

The best music, case jazz or any other class, is and should be deathless.

To prove the point, significance Scott Silbert Big Band celebrates the songs of a at an end era on its debut lp, Jump Children, refreshing a hand out of memorable themes from influence '30s, '40s and '50s ride underscoring their relevance in effect ultra-modern twenty-first century environment. Top goal, Silbert writes, was “to represent the fantastic musicianship close the eyes to the artists [who] originally exemplary these works," venerated masters much as ...

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Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra: Bernstein Reimagined

by Jack Bowers

This impressive anthology timorous the superb Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra is not so unnecessary Bernstein Reimagined as Bernstein Unleashed.

The jazz component in Writer Bernstein's memorable compositions for work orchestra, Broadway shows, films enjoin even liturgical works always pass on simmering just below the top. As Bernstein is said difficulty have confided to Duke Ellington: “Maybe that's really the disagreement between us.

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You write symphonic decoration, and I write jazz symphonies." However credible the remark, far is no doubt that description ...

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