During my time at Sony Jazz we worked closely with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, who were never less than wonderful. They always looked sharp too, the ironing boards backstage were made full use of before a performance!
Here in Toronto, if you're ever up this way, we have a 13-piece band called The Orange Devils — and they play original charts (sometimes slightly rearranged) by Ellington, Basie, Fletcher Henderson and many others. Those charts, from the late '30s through to the mid-'40s, are in the Smithsonian in Washington and are now in the public domain. The guys in the band are all veterans in their forties and fifties — when a friend of mine, a young woman of 23, subbed in when one of the trombonists couldn't make it, she told me she was very nervous. "I'll have no problem reading the charts, but I just dropped out of music school and three of my professors are in the bend.". Not much video on them, but this piece from the COVID era may cheer you!
Such a big fan of your writing! Can't help but wonder if there is a jazz themed Hi Fidelity or Juliet, Naked in our future ;-). Thanks for the brilliance!
During my time at Sony Jazz we worked closely with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, who were never less than wonderful. They always looked sharp too, the ironing boards backstage were made full use of before a performance!
Here in Toronto, if you're ever up this way, we have a 13-piece band called The Orange Devils — and they play original charts (sometimes slightly rearranged) by Ellington, Basie, Fletcher Henderson and many others. Those charts, from the late '30s through to the mid-'40s, are in the Smithsonian in Washington and are now in the public domain. The guys in the band are all veterans in their forties and fifties — when a friend of mine, a young woman of 23, subbed in when one of the trombonists couldn't make it, she told me she was very nervous. "I'll have no problem reading the charts, but I just dropped out of music school and three of my professors are in the bend.". Not much video on them, but this piece from the COVID era may cheer you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sJ4vdOWY14
Hi
Nick, I love jazz and the big-band stuff has always been lots of fun in my opinion. Thanks for sharing this enjoyable piece.
Tapping my toes as I’m tapping my fingers to write this. A warm thank you from my happy ears.
More of this!
🙏 Thank you for new Jazz to listen to.
Such a big fan of your writing! Can't help but wonder if there is a jazz themed Hi Fidelity or Juliet, Naked in our future ;-). Thanks for the brilliance!