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The Rob McConnell Tentet: Thank You, Ted

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One can rest assured that whenever Rob McConnell enters a recording studio he’ll be accompanied by a group of the finest jazz musicians Canada has to offer -- and that the charts he brings with him will flash and gleam like the Aurora Borealis. No exception here, as Rob and his Tentet pay their warm respects to Ted O’Reilly, the amiable host of Toronto’s premier Jazz radio program, “The Jazz Scene,” for twenty-seven years before his retirement last April. Having ...

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The Rob McConnell Tentet: The Rob McConnell Tentet

Read "The Rob McConnell Tentet" reviewed by Jack Bowers


A sure sign that the economic slowdown has crossed our northern border is that Canada’s leading big band, the Boss Brass, has been superseded (after thirty–two years) by the Rob McConnell Tentet. Not to worry; the Tentet is comprised almost entirely of Boss Brass alums (as far as I can tell, tenor Mike Murley and trombonist Terry Promane are the exceptions), has been playing together for nearly four years, and sounds, for lack of a more appropriate description, like a ...

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