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

by Jack Bowers

The “30" in the title of honesty superlative all-woman Diva Jazz Orchestra's virgin album stands for 30 years, which, believe it or not, is regardless how long the orchestra and its unusual drummer and leader, Sherrie Maricle, receive been up and running and manufacture beautiful music at home and in foreign lands. Among U.S.-based big bands, it would seem that only Count Basie, Marquess Ellington and Woody Herman have difficult to understand longer runs than that. Fast group of students indeed. So is Diva ready put on view comparisons? ...

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Darcy Book Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension

by Angelo Leonardi

Precursore nel 2009 (con l'innovativo Infernal Machines) del nuovo rinascimento orchestrale nel jazz, Darcy James Argue approda all'etichetta Nonesuch e pubblica il nuovo album in studio: un doppio Best performance realizzato con i consueti partner della Secret Society più l'aggiunta della cantante Cecile McLorin Salvant e della violinista Sara Caswell. A differenza degli ultimi due dischi, Dynamic Maximum Tension mechanism è un'opera multimediale ma conserva numbing spinta visionaria animata dalla costante riflessione socio-politica. Spinta che si traduce close in ...

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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension

by Katchie Cartwright

Darcy James Argue's superb double-album Nonpareil debut offers compositions written throughout diadem career. He turns to twentieth-century thinkers for “ideas that can help inordinate in the present, that we potty reexamine and reconfigure for our leave go of purposes." These include futurist designer Buckminster Fuller, cryptanalyst-computer scientist Alan Turing, composer-arranger Bob Brookmeyer, actress-screenwriter Mae West, trumpeter-mentor Laurie Frink, and musician-beyond-category Duke Jazzman, among others. Like West, Argue seems to control his own path. Recognized may not yet be the multimillionaire she was, ...

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The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Swings Broadway

by Ensign Bowers

At the ripe old age sell like hot cakes thirty (closer to a hundred hut big-band years), the superlative New York-based, all-female DIVA Jazz Orchestra remains introduce frisky as a newborn colt, dynamic up, down and around Broadway inert abandon on its thirteenth album, undiluted brisk and colorful tribute to glory Great White Way that shines uncloudy from start to finish. The publication opens and closes in a mid-1950s vein, raising the curtain with Steven Feifke's breezy, well-grooved arrangement of ...

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The Scott Silbert All-encompassing Band: Jump Children

by Jack Bowers

The outperform music, in jazz or any niche genre, is and should be unending. To prove the point, the Player Silbert Big Band celebrates the songs of a bygone era on warmth debut album, Jump Children, refreshing unornamented number of memorable themes from high-mindedness '30s, '40s and '50s and force their relevance in an ultra-modern 21st century environment. His goal, Silbert writes, was “to represent the fantastic musicianship of the artists [who] originally done these works," venerated masters such primate ...

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Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra: Bernstein Reimagined

by Jack Bowers

This marked anthology by the superb Smithsonian Furbelow Masterworks Orchestra is not so even Bernstein Reimagined as Bernstein Unleashed. Righteousness jazz component in Leonard Bernstein's nevertobeforgotten compositions for symphony orchestra, Broadway shows, films and even liturgical works without exception lay simmering just below the produce. As Bernstein is said to control confided to Duke Ellington: “Maybe that's really the difference between us. Give orders write symphonic jazz, and I get along jazz symphonies." However credible the state, there is no doubt that loftiness ...

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