Paul Haar

The UNL Jazz Orchestra: The Good Life

by Jack Bowers
March 8, 2017

The UNL in question is the University of Nebraska-Lincoln whose Jazz Orchestra has taken so many emphatic steps forward under director Paul Haar that it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with such elite programs as North Texas, Miami, Northern Iowa and a host of others. On its fourth CD, The Good Life, recorded in March 2016, the orchestra glides easily through a program of standards and originals that would test the resources of almost any ensemble, university ...