I'm always astonished to hear a terrific new CD by a contemporary big band. One would assume that the cost of rehearsing, touring and recording today is prohibitively expensive, that finding the talent to play regularly in such a band is increasingly difficult to find, and that arranging isn't quite what it used to be back in the 1950s and '60s. A new C…
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