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Tom Matta Big Band: Standards
by Jack Bowers
What's in a name? After all, a big-band jazz album by any other name would sound the same. On the other hand, it should be pointed out that as the versatile Tom Matta has chosen the name Standards to define his second album as leader of the Chicago-based Tom Matta Big Band, only three of the eight selections (maybe four, if one counts Bernstein / Sondheim's Somewhere" from West Side Story) qualify as such under the definition a tune or ...
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