WDR Big Band Köln diretta da John Clayton, featuring: Joe Williams (voce); Milt Jackson (vibrafono); Cedar Walton (pianoforte); John Clayton (contrabbasso); Jeff Hamilton (batteria). 1. Everyday I ...

Mixed emotions must underline this review. Center Stage, featuring bassist Eddie Gomez, drummer Steve Gadd and baritone saxophonist Ronnie Cuber with Germany's superb WDR Big Band conducted by Michael ...

Anyone who uses YouTube to search for contemporary jazz must surely be familiar with Germany's blue-ribbon WDR Big Band, as it is abundantly represented at the site. Bearing that in mind, it may come ...

Performing in the U.S. for the first time in decades, Germany’s WDR Big Band, with musical director Bob Mintzer, will be among the featured artists at the 58th annual Elmhurst University Jazz Festival ...

Saxophonist Bob Mintzer, a New Yorker who left home long ago to see the world, is a professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music and chief conductor of ...

Zawinul is onstage with the WDR Big Band from Germany and a special international rhythm section. The music is a tribute to the pioneering 1970s fusion collective Weather Report, originally with Wayne ...

Violinist Darol Anger literally had a dream, one in which he was performing his bluegrass music not with the David Grisman Quintet or another small group but in front of a full-fledged big band—and in ...

Tribute to Jaco Pastorius by the WDR Big Band at the 33 Leverkusener Jazztage 2012 Germany WDR BIG BAND conducted by VINCE MENDOZA plays Jaco Pastorius compositions VICTOR BAILEY bass PETER ERSKINE ...

Early in the first set of a two-night/four-show run at Birdland by the WDR Big Band, its musical director, Bob Mintzer, gave the capacity crowd a brief bit of background on the ensemble we were ...

Ever onward for Marshall Gilkes. After snagging a Grammy nomination for Köln (Alternate Side Records, 2016)—a collaborative venture with the WDR Big Band (of which he was a member from early 2010 to ...

Quick and to the Point: WDR’s Latin Big Band offering with D’Rivera, Roditi and others. Big Band Time is yet another showcase for the first-rate WDR Big Band (WDR), featuring Paquito D’Rivera and ...

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