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Nebraska Jazz Orchestra: Christmas Jazz

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1999

While I hesitate to use the word “best” when referring to music (as one too often has to swallow and digest that word), I can’t resist observing that the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra opens Christmas Jazz with the best arrangement of “The Little Drummer Boy” I’ve ever heard. It’s by the band’s talented young guitarist, transplanted Vermonter Peter Bouffard, and includes among its background riffs brief quotes from a large number of seasonal classics from “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” and ...

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One of the World's Most-Recorded Trumpet Players Visits the Lied Center; Wayne Bergeron with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra Performs October 15 at 7:30PM

Source: Lied Center for Performing Arts
September 30, 2010

Lincoln, NE—Come experience a night of world-class music as Wayne Bergeron teams up with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra (NJO). Expect nothing less than swinging jazz, amazing ensembles, as well as one-liners, inside jokes and general hilarity from Bergeron in this concert featuring “Waynard plays Maynard." Ed Love, music director for NJO, says that “[the NJO is] thrilled to play with Wayne, a real legend among trumpet players and jazz lovers. His work with Maynard Ferguson's band endeared him to people ...
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