The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra - OverTime: Music Of Bob Brookmeyer (2014) FLAC

THE VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA is not your father s Mel Lewis-Thad Jones Jazz Orchestra on OVER TIME MUSIC OF BOB BROOKMEYER [Planet Arts 101413]. By that I mean the Jones-Lewis big band had a certain personality, due in large part from Thad Jones arrangements. The music, on this current issue, really draws all its personality from Bob Brookmeyer s writing and arrangements (7 Brookmeyer originals plus Skylark ). And it s wonderful music very orcherstrational, impressionistic and controlled in its setting and presentation, there is room for improvising [Dick Oatts, Scott Wendholt, John Riley, Billy Drews, Rich Perry, Terell Stafford, John Mosca, Ralph Lalama, Gary Smulyan] but the main voice here is Bobby Brookmeyer. -- Zim Tarro - Cadence. The Independent Journal of Creative Improvised Music