Eastman Jazz '96

Eastman Jazz '96: Take the Next Step

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

This is a representative cross–sample of Eastman’s Jazz Studies/Contemporary Media program circa 1995–96 with an opening number by the Jazz Ensemble and others by groups of various shapes, sizes and points of view with every selection composed, arranged and performed by students at the Rochester, New York, school. The ensemble is center stage for about eight minutes with David Cutler’s boppish “Bucking for the Buck,” and it is time well spent. The rest of the program could accurately be described ...