Jim McNeely - Threnody? Jim McNeely: The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw (JOC) is one of the world's great jazz ensembles. I've known some of these musicians since the late '90's. But I'd never worked with the whole JOC until January 2020. Then Juan Martinez, JOC artistic director (and baritone saxophonist), emailed me. He proposed that I write a CD's worth of music for the band, featuring all their soloists. After many more months of Zoom rehearsals (ugh!), scheduling

Oscar "El Negro Oro" Gonzalez - El Negro Oro

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The Cell immediately draws us into David's unique world of storytelling

Jimmy Dean burst upon the music scene in the mid-'50s with an easy-going

The AORish "Someone To Love" including a fine guitar solo ends the 'side A' of the original vinyl

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though he does revisit with his old friends Judy and Jeremy in this outing

a magic square from 1514 provides for a percussive palette of punchy melodic loops

Looking for Action 4

they offer us their vision of the Fourth Symphony

He has performed internationally

From Mozart's furious Queen of the Night to Debussy's enigmatic Mélisande