Recommended Jazz: Modern Big Band music (#1 - #40)
STAN KENTON ORCH. & COLLEGIATE NEOPHONIC ORCH.: Horns Of Plenty - Volume 1
Classic Stan Kenton recording
CD price: $20.00
STAN KENTON: Tunes & Topics - Part One
Stan's 1970 band "Live" at the Golden Lion in Dayton, Ohio (1st half) in excellent stereo and part one of a 1972 wide-ranging Kenton interview conducted by radio personality Bob Foskett.
CD price: $18.00
STAN KENTON: Tunes & Topics - Part Two
Stan's 1970 band "Live" at the Golden Lion in Dayton, Ohio (2nd half) in excellent stereo and part two of a 1972 wide-ranging Kenton interview conducted by radio personality Bob Foskett
CD price: $18.00
MARCHFOURTH MARCHING BAND: Live
High-energy surrealist global-groove alternative big band, propelled by electric bass, 10-piece percussion ensemble, and mind-blowing 12-piece horn section.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
THE MASTERS OF MUSIC BIG BAND: Ron Kischuk & The Masters of Music Big Band
Classic big band music by Detroit's most well known performers directed by Yamaha jazz trombone artist Ron Kischuk. A full Kenton like big band sound. Playing difficult arrangements from the greatest big bands and their writers, Tonight Show Band, Maynard
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
FRANK DERRICK: The Beat Goes On
Frank Derrick’s "The Beat Goes On" showcases both Frank’s Big Band and his Quintet performing exciting straight ahead jazz. Drummer Frank Derrick has performed around the world and is recognized as a leading authority on drumming technique.
CD price: $14.99
VARIOUS BIG BANDS: Kenton Portraits - 2CDs
The innovative ideas of Stan Kenton and his many celebrated composers/arrangers resulted in new dramatic writing devices which have been absorbed over the years by the worldwide Big Band community.
CD price: $20.00
LOS ANGELES NEOPHONIC ORCHESTRA: New Horizons - Volume 1
The Neophonic movement, launched in the mid-sixties, was another grand Stan Kenton adventure. This one had the ultimate goal of establishing contemporary resident jazz orchestras in major cities across the United States and even around the globe.
CD price: $20.00
LOS ANGELES NEOPHONIC ORCH. AND NY NEOPHONIC ORCH.: New Horizons - Volume 2
The Neophonic movement, launched in the mid-sixties, was another grand Stan Kenton adventure. This one had the ultimate goal of establishing contemporary resident jazz orchestras in major cities across the United States and even around the globe.
CD price: $20.00
STAN KENTON ORCHESTRA: Cool, Hot & Swingin'
A medley of Stan Kenton treasures from Bill Lichtenauer's ever-resourceful Tantara Productions, recaps a splendid concert performance in February 1956 at the Civic Auditorium in San Bernardino, CA.
CD price: $15.00
PAUL FERGUSON JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Live At The Bop Stop
Contemporary big band jazz featuring original works by celebrated composer/arranger, Paul Ferguson.
Recommended if you like Gil Evans, Maria Schneider.CD price: $12.97
NATHAN TANOUYE & THE LAS VEGAS JAZZ CONNECTION: The Russ Freeman Project II-" Remembering Russ"
A big band plus strings new renditions of Russ Freeman bebop classics featuring songs and instrumentals.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Swingin' Together with Sammy Nestico
Recorded live in Beachwood Ohio, this was a great night performing the compositions of one of the greatest big band composers, Sammy Nestico.
Recommended if you like Count Basie.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $7.99
LOUIE BELLSON & CLARK TERRY: Louie & Clark Expedition 2
Jazz masters Louie Bellson (drums) and Clark Terry (trumpet) join on this dynamic album of new big band music by composer Bellson. Also features Kenny Washington and Sylvia Cuenca (drums).
CD price: $17.95 / MP3 price: $9.99
BLOW & ORDER: Dive'n'Rave
Techno music combined with brass music and performed from a marching band ---- techno brass with 6 tubas, 6 trombones, 6 trumpets, 8 big drums and a drum machine.
Recommended if you like Brassband.CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ANDY BALLANTYNE LARGE ENSEMBLE: The Sum Of The Parts
Noted saxophonist/composer Andy Ballantyne's debut recording as a leader defines the new genre "omnivore jazz". Influences range from Aaron Copeland to Charles Mingus to Ornette Coleman to the Beatles.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
WESTCHESTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA: All In
"One of the most incredible jazz orchestras in the entire country," says JazzImprov's New York Jazz Guide. Check out this CD to find out why.
CD price: $14.97
MONSTER BIG BAND: Live At The Ruta Maya Coffee House
Sit back, strap in, and enjoy the wall of sound. Come feel the 500 horsepower, fully blown, big band fury.
Recommended if you like Count Basie, Gordon Goodwin.CD price: $16.00
THE BIRDLAND BIG BAND-DIRECTED BY TOMMY IGOE: The Lew Anderson Tribute Concert
Big Band Jazz
CD price: $12.97
KNOXVILLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Blues Man from Memphis: More from the Musical Mind of Donald Brown
"Donald Brown is the most recent link of an elite group of composers that includes Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Tadd Dameron, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Thad Jones, and Wayne Shorter.” - Pianist James Williams
CD price: $15.00
NEW ENGLAND JAZZ ENSEMBLE: ...A Cookin' Christmas
New music for 16-person jazz big band and innovative arrangements of jazz standards.
CD price: $16.00
NEW ENGLAND JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Live At the Pittsfield City Jazz Festival
Original compositions and innovative treatments of jazz standards by 16-person big band.
CD price: $16.00
TIM WHALEN NONET: Magnus
A jazz composer and improviser of the highest order.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA: Ten
Big band jazz incorporating Asian instruments and influences
CD price: $12.97
THE MIGGY+ JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Ibuki ( The Blooming Season)
The first CD of one of the Tokyo's most popular big-band (jazz orchestra) which only performs original music composed and arranged by their pianist "Migiwa Miyajima".(English translation inside)
Recommended if you like Herbie Hancock, Maria Schneider, Jim Mcneely & Bob Brookmeyer & Thad Jones, Rob Perton's Jazztech Big Band.CD price: $18.99 / MP3 price: $16.99
THE UPPER AUSTRIAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Des söwe aundas oder ... Thomas Bernhard groovt
One of the best European Jazz Big Bands. The way a piece of literature works on its readers is part of the work.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
HR BIG BAND: Pictures At An Exhibition & Echoes Of Aranjuez
Two popular "classics" of orchestral music in unusual arrangements for jazz big band, whose atmospherically dense and surprising tonal imagery lend both pieces the potential to become "classics" of the modern big band repertoire.
CD price: $18.00
JOHN-ERIC BOOTH: Alive & Swinging
Classic timeless sound of the Great American Songbook staying true to the big band swinging music era.
Recommended if you like Frank Sinatra.CD price: $14.97
PAUL FERGUSON JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Friends
Originals and standards in a contemporary big band jazz setting
Recommended if you like Duke Ellington, Maria Schneider.CD price: $12.97
PAUL FERGUSON: Jazz Vespers
A compelling collection of Jazz Orchestra arrangments of church music spanning 500 years.
CD price: $12.97
RICK WALD 16/NYC: Play That Thing
Unique modern big band comprised of some of NYC's most accomplished and creative jazz musicians. Fresh and interesting charts, superb ensemble playing, solos full of personality rather than cliches.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
ALAN BAYLOCK JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Eastern Standard Time
East Coast modern big band at its finest. Incredible writing, impeccable band.
CD price: $20.00
ARTURO O'FARRILL & THE AFRO-LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Song For Chico
This album re-affirms their claim as the world’s leading Latin jazz big band.
CD price: $18.98
ROB PARTON'S JAZZTECH BIG BAND: Just One of Those Things
Swinging modern big band jazz. The Chicago Tribune has called them, "one of the best big bands in the country."
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NSU JAZZ ENSEMBLE: The Point
This jazz ensemble album of all-new arrangements and compositions features, fusion, bossa, and modern big band with guitarist/vocalist Henry Johnson. Recommended if you like Bobby Watson.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
TOM DAVIS: Lake Songs
Tom Davis' debut album of highly creative compositions for large jazz ensemble - thought provoking structure and design - haunting colors - and an exhilarating spectrum of rhythmic energy.
Recommended if you like Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
MORGAN POWELL & UIUC JAZZ BAND: The Morgan Powell Jazz Album
Original compositions, main stream to avant-garde, for jazz band and other ensembles
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DEAN MCNEILL: Prarie Fire
This is jazz orchestra made up of some of Canada's finest. The arrangements and compositions are those of trumpeter, Dean McNeill who demonstrates a flare for the idiom of big band writing.
Recommended if you like Count Basie, Maria Schneider.CD price: $13.97
WAYNE NAUS: Born On The Road
15 piece burning Big Band Jazz in the style of Buddy Rich.
CD price: $12.97
