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Album Review

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Tidal Currents: East Meets West

Read "Tidal Currents: East Meets West" reviewed by Jack Bowers


When it comes to appraising contemporary big bands, Canada's Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is on equal footing with the best of them. For its seventh album, Tidal Currents, the WJO has engaged two of that country's leading jazz composers, Jill Townsend and Christine Jensen, to present in musical terms impressions of places that have a special meaning to them, in particular the bodies of water that inspired them in their younger years and up to this point in time.

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Album Review

The Jill Townsend Big Band: Tales from the Sea

Read "Tales from the Sea" reviewed by Jack Bowers


This is what makes reviewing such an adventure. Just when one thinks he may have heard it all, a new big band comes out of nowhere—well, out of Vancouver, British Columbia, actually—to prove that he hasn’t, that there’s always something new under the sun, and that there’s almost nothing more rewarding than the thrill of discovering a marvelous new Jazz ensemble whose artistry and resourcefulness can best be described as breathtaking. The band in question is led by composer/arranger Jill ...

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Performance / Tour

SWOJO w/special guest Jill Townsend Sept. 20

SWOJO w/special guest Jill Townsend Sept. 20

Source: All About Jazz

SEATTLE WOMEN'S JAZZ ORCHESTRA (SWOJO) with special guest Jill Townsend

Wednesday, September 20 at 7:30pm

The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) will perform an all-ages concert at the Triple Door Mainstage in Seattle on Wednesday, September 20, featuring music composed, arranged and conducted by Jill Townsend.

Vancouver0based arranger/composer Jill Townsend is the principal composer and conductor for the Jill Townsend Big Band, a seventeen piece jazz ensemble. As a trombonist, Jill has performed with many notable artists including Kenny Wheeler, ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Tidal Currents: East...

Chronograph Records
2024

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Tales from the Sea

Unknown label
2004

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Rock Skipping Under the Half Moon

From: Tidal Currents: East Meets West
By Jill Townsend

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