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University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One 2014-15: Local Color
by Jack Bowers
In Local Color, the latest in a long series of splendid albums by the University of Northern Iowa's Jazz Band One, color is one of the primary ingredients; every number, in fact, is awash in radiant colors, from the prismatic opener, UNI alum Michael Conrad's Gerry's Timepiece," to the chimerical closer, Curtis Fuller's dark-hued The Egyptian." Between them are burnished original compositions by Brian Crew, Jack Cooper and Rick Hirsch; Wayne Shorter's well-grooved Fee Fi Fo Fum," Eddie Harris' exuberant ...
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