Showing posts with label big band jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big band jazz. Show all posts

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Big Jazz Bands Writ Large: Saturday Music Club

Carla Bley/Michael Mantler Orchestra: Escalator Over the Hill


Anthony Braxton Orchestra: Creative Orchestra Music 1976


Gunther Schuller Orchestra: Jazz Abstractions


Thelonious Monk Big Band and Quartet: In Concert (Columbia)


Charles Mingus Quartet and Toshiyuki Miyama's New Herd Orchestra: 
Charles Mingus with Orchestra (Denon. 1971)


Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: "Sumie"


Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra: The New Continent


David Amram Orchestra: The Young Savages

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Saturday Music Club: some latter-day (mostly) big bands

Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: Long Yellow Road


Maria Schneider Orchestra: Gumba Blue


The Very Big Carla Bley Band: Who Will Rescue You?


SWOJO (Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra): Israel


The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Umbrella Man; Three Sisters & A Cousin


Lil Hardin Armstrong and Her Swing Orchestra: Oriental Swing


Ina Rae Hutton and Her Melodears


International Sweethearts of Rhythm: Jump, Children!; She's Crazy with the Heat

--and a radio aircheck of "Lady Be Good"

Lesa Terry Women's Jazz Orchestra: