Walt Boenig

The Walt Boenig Big Band: A Lot of Us

by Jack Bowers
June 25, 2003

Trombonist Walt Boenig, who paid his dues on the road with the Glenn Miller, Harry James and Jimmy Dorsey bands, among others, has shaped his own Las Vegas-based ensemble in their swing-era image while bringing them up to date with sparkling new arrangements by Tommy Check, Walt Stuart, Bobby Harrison and Joe Lano.

A Lot of Us, four years in the making, is the band’s second album; the first was A Little of You. It’s a two-disc set with eleven ...