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Doug Purviance

Native of South Orange, NJ, Douglas Purviance has worked professionally in the United States and abroad for well over three decades. After raduating from Towson State University in 1975, he established himself during a two-year engagement, touring extensively and recording three albums, with the highly acclaimed Stan Kenton Orchestra. Douglas Purviance is the Orchestra Manager from the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

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Album Review

Mike LeDonne: It's All Your Fault

Read "It's All Your Fault" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Even though listed on only four tracks, organist Mike LeDonne's superlative Groover Quartet performs on every one of the nine selections on LeDonne's admirable new recording, It's All Your Fault--and that's a good thing, as each member of the quartet (LeDonne, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, guitarist Peter Bernstein, drummer Joe Farnsworth) is an accomplished soloist and ardent team player. On the album's remaining tracks, the quartet is assimilated into LeDonne's seventeen- member big band, a taut and high-powered unit that ...

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Album Review

Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited

Read "The Movement Revisited" reviewed by Chris May


The spring 2020 release of The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons is the latest chapter in Christian McBride's inspirational salute to the African American civil rights movement and to four of its heroes: Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. Embracing big band jazz, small group jazz, gospel, funk and chorale musics, together with spoken word passages, the suite employs an eighteen-piece band, the ten-piece Voices Of The Flame gospel choir, two lead ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

It's All Your Fault

Savant Records
2021

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The Movement Revisited

Mack Avenue Records
2020

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