Contemporary Fusion Reviews the Andrew Neu Big Band Great Big Band Fun
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By Rick Melody
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The grouping's anthology features bass great Nathan Eastward. A recording with country-music star and Eagles' fellow member Vince Gill is also in the offing
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Nosotros hope that your big band will proceed for another 40 years to bring joy and swing in these dark times...
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"Big Ring Jazz Machine has been a constant, a jovial, swinging ensemble that packs a punch. They are a tight unit of measurement with crisp, punchy accents over 12 selections including 6 vocals… Nosotros besides enjoyed "Gimme That" written by saxophonist Andrew Neu, and "Bass: The Final Frontier" featuring guest Nathan E on bass."
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This is the sixth release by the Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Car, which has been based in southern California for the past xl years. I reviewed their last CD, Tasty Tunes, in the June 2018 upshot of Jazz Journal (Tall Man Productions 005). Equally Bob Mintzer pointed out at the time, "Ira Liss is one of those special folk who keep the big band idiom alive and kick."
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Nosotros opened the show today!!! Mother'south Day in the United kingdom!!
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A well-oiled grouping of musicians that will certainly appeal to fans of big band music!
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Veteran Big Band leader Ira B. Liss puts together a hard swinging anthology with his 23+ member team along with some fun guests.
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This is a fantastic large ring jazz album with a swing-feel coming from a thick ensemble and you can enjoy without whatsoever need for convincing.
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"Mazel Tov Kocktail" delivers everything whatsoever big band fan would be looking for. The sound is ever tight, the Arrangements are fresh and new and the execution past the seasoned members of this Band is perfect.
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Despite the dire situation [coronavirus pandemic], musicians even so give the rest of us hope. Despite the lack of gigs, many of them take stayed decorated, among them Ira B. Liss and his Big Band Jazz Automobile. Ira and his coiffure recorded and have only released Mazel Tov Kocktail!, a CD worthy of the congratulation besides as the exclamation marker.
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Host Dave Drexler brings you lot weekly interviews with the leaders in the local and national arts scene besides as an insider's await at the full range of creative endeavors from the county'south musicians, painters, actors and writers.
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Interview in the beginning office of the evidence.
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In his spirited, insightful liner notes for Mazel Tov Kocktail!, the bold, deliriously difficult swinging, sultry and sensual sixth album by his Big Band Jazz Machine, Ira B. Liss quotes the legendary Glenn Miller: "A ring ought to have a sound of its own. It ought to have a personality."
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The music on this album is quite varied with six arrangers who contributed to the compositions, including iii by Dan Radlauer, the band'due south regular composer. He has composed for television, flick and more than a thousand commercials.
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Mazel Tov Kocktail! is the big ring's sixth recording and continues to build on their creative vision for a variety of tastefully-rendered fabric, including many fresh and exciting new compositions such equally the spirited opener "Gimme That" by Andrew Neu and featuring him on tenor sax.
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Six, mainly original, instrumentals and half-dozen song covers past Janet Hammer and Carly Ines. Carly, who's too in the trombone section, sings Chick Corea's High Wire, Honey You Madly and Joy Spring. Janet lends her vocal chords to You'd Better Love Me While You May, I Wish Y'all Dear and Where or When. Both singers are the real bargain.
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Each arrangement that peels off this CD is similar a plump, juicy piece of sweet fruit. I savour the diverseness of jazz styles that they celebrate. I minute they celebrate Duke Ellington's popular "Love You Madly" and they follow that with "Bass, The Terminal Frontier" that features the funky, exciting, electric bass of Nathan East.
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The Southern California sensations Ira B. Liss Big Ring Jazz Motorcar render with a dozen new, swingin' tunes, and they've got some esteemed guests on paw to help mankind out the fun.
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Information technology'south not often that a grouping reaches a 40th Anniversary together, just Ira's rousing rollicking big band jazz group has done just that…
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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview serial with San Diego-based Jazz Large Ring Leader Ira B. Liss.. Nosotros talked to him in mid_January 2021 about his latest 2021 CD with the Big Ring Automobile – Mazel Tov Kicktail - A Celebration of twoscore Years. This sixth full length album from The Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Car and is full of activity.
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What started out as a way to take a loftier school music teacher give his charges a fashion to strop chops and blow off steam has become a SoCal institution at present celebrating it's 40th year of madly swinging.
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Mazel Tov Kocktail!, the newest recording by the Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Motorcar, is a swinging, rollicking collection of new and standard big band numbers performed by a tight-knit group of top-notch musicians.
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Observe great new music this weekend with our weekly roundup of new songs and albums! This calendar week'southward New Release Cheat Sheet features new music by Sibusile Xaba, Wynton Marsalis, Apifera and more than.
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Ira B. Liss first formed the Large Band Jazz Machine in 1979 as a vehicle for students in Southern California - particularly in the San Diego surface area – to polish up their skills. Now he produces and conducts his 6th recording, and the audio and the verve just heighten!
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Listen again to the programme first broadcast on Coastal Sound Radio on Jan 13 featuring The Ira B. Liss Large Band Jazz Machine, Pete Rugolo & His Orchestra, Patrick Williams, The Mike Barone Big Ring, Large Beat Jazz, The Interplay Jazz Orchestra and many more...
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Guest stars on the Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Motorcar'due south new album include famed local bassist Nathan E
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Bass, The Final Borderland is on the JAZZIZ Editors' Choice Playlist!
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