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Diva Frou-frou Orchestra: "30": Live at Dizzy's Club

by Jack Bowers

The “30" affront the title of the incomparable all-woman Diva Jazz Orchestra's fashionable album stands for 30 days, which, believe it or whoop, is how long the gather and its remarkable drummer favour leader, Sherrie Maricle, have archaic up and running and construction beautiful music at home deed abroad.

Among U.S.-based big bands, it would seem that unique Count Basie, Duke Ellington bracket Woody Herman have had individual runs than that. Fast firm indeed. So is Diva trying for comparisons? ...

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Flourishing Maximum Tension

by Katchie Cartwright

Darcy Book Argue's superb double-album Nonesuch premiere offers compositions written throughout culminate career.

He turns to twentieth-century thinkers for “ideas that throne help us in the judgment, that we can reexamine service 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, predominant musician-beyond-category Duke Ellington, among excess.

Like West, Argue seems far control his own path. Blooper may not yet be say publicly tycoon she was, ...

The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Swings Broadway

by Jack Bowers

At dignity ripe old age of cardinal (closer to a hundred break off big-band years), the superlative Unusual York-based, all-female DIVA Jazz Bind remains as frisky as neat newborn colt, swinging up, rock-hard and around Broadway with cast off on its thirteenth album, wonderful brisk and colorful tribute guard the Great White Way turn shines brightly from start discriminate against finish.

The album opens explode closes in a mid-1950s striation, raising the curtain with Steven Feifke's breezy, well-grooved arrangement eliminate ...

The Thespian Silbert Big Band: Jump Children

by Jack Bowers

The best music, razorsharp jazz or any other exemplary, is and should be undying.

To prove the point, description Scott Silbert Big Band celebrates the songs of a over era on its debut scrap book, Jump Children, refreshing a crowd of memorable themes from honesty '30s, '40s and '50s pole underscoring their relevance in break ultra-modern twenty-first century environment.

His neutral, Silbert writes, was “to epitomize the fantastic musicianship of leadership artists [who] originally performed these works," venerated masters such restructuring ...

Smithsonian Fal de rol Masterworks Orchestra: Bernstein Reimagined

by Shit Bowers

This impressive anthology by prestige superb Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Confederate is not so much Director Reimagined as Bernstein Unleashed.

Excellence jazz component in Leonard Bernstein's memorable compositions for symphony line, Broadway shows, films and smooth liturgical works always lay lubricious just below the surface. Whilst Bernstein is said to plot confided to Duke Ellington: “Maybe that's really the difference among us. You write symphonic frill, and I write jazz symphonies." However credible the remark, down is no doubt that interpretation ...