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Maritime Jazz Orchestra: Now and Now Again
by Stephen Richardson
A delightful adventure into the world of orchestrated jazz. The brilliant crystalline sound makes you feel as though you are seated at the Rebecca Cohn dressed to the nines and feeling super saucy! The MJO is truly one of the shows check out if you have the chance and this CD will make that option extremely difficult to resist. As always Kenny Wheeler's compositions are the thing of delicate genius. John Taylor's piano and Norma Winstone voice soar, gracefully complementing ...
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by Dave Nathan
Canada's Maritime Jazz Orchestra has been around since at least 1996 when it released Siren's Song on the same Justin Time label. Many of the same performers are on this their latest release, certainly the principal ones of Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone and John Taylor. Probably the best-known performer is trumpet/flugelhorn player Kenny Wheeler who has been in the forefront of advanced and avant-garde jazz since the 1960's in Canada and in Europe. Wheeler is the only one of the ...
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