The Ryles Jazz Orchestra

The Ryles Jazz Orchestra: Live at Ryles

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2003

Another big band has left me foraging for words with which to describe my great surprise and pleasure on hearing it for the first time. Boston’s Ryles Jazz Orchestra is most definitely the real deal, or it was when this awesome concert date was recorded almost three years ago at the jazz club from which it takes its name.

I don’t know who these gentlemen (and, I assume, two ladies) are but music director Frank Vardaros deserves a medal for ...