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New Emily Jazz Orchestra
New Emily Jazz Orchestra: New Ever Tribute to Romolo Grande
by AAJ Staff
Fifty years ago, Italian jazz enthusiast Romolo Grande founded the New Emily Jazz Orchestra. It started out as a collection of rough-and-ready traditionalists, and as they developed, they matured, until they became the capable, slightly off-the-wall post bop crew featured on this recording. New Emily is grounded in hard bop, but these players have a wide reach that overlaps into classical repertoire, Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton. They approach everything with enthusiasm and expertise, as well as, I suspect, some ...
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