The TCU Jazz Ensemble

The TCU Jazz Ensemble: "Road Toads"

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2002

The Texas Christian University Jazz Ensemble is “on the road” for only three of the sixteen selections on its latest CD with five others recorded in concert at TCU’s Ed Landreth Hall. Strayhorn’s “Take the ‘A’ Train” and the standard “Just Friends” were taped in mid–July 2000 at the Montreux (Switzerland) Jazz Festival, Louis Prima’s “Jump, Jive and Wail” a week earlier in Budapest, Hungary, during the ensemble’s European tour (the band also performed at the Vienna Jazz Festival). TCU ...