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The DePaul University Jazz Ensemble
The DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Live at the Jazz Showcase
by Jack Bowers
I hear a lot these days about how college students are being taught Jazz–by–the–numbers instead of how to think and react creatively in an extemporaneous situation, but I simply can’t buy into that line of reasoning, especially when listening to a group of young musicians as sharp and audacious as those in director Bob Lark’s Chicago–based DePaul University Jazz Ensemble who show clearly on Live at the Jazz Showcase that they’d give any big band, college or pro, a pulse–pounding ...
read moreSolitude: Phil Woods with the Depaul University Jazz Ensemble / May 11 Release
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
Jazzed Media announces the May 11, 2010 release of SOLITUDE, featuring Phil Woods with the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble. SOLITUDE features 10 original compositions by Phil Woods in fresh, big band arrangements crafted by Woods, Jim McNeely, Thomas Matta, Kirk Garrison, and the DownBeat magazine award-winning DePaul University Jazz Ensemble. Phil is featured as soloist on each of the selections, with his long-time colleagues - pianist Jim McNeely, bassist Steve Gilmore and drummer Bill Goodwin - joining the DePaul band ...
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The DePaul University Jazz Ensemble
