Top Albums - Progressive Big Band

Dave Rivello Ensemble: Facing the Mirror

Modern and original large ensemble - jazz orchestra

Recommended if you like Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeely, Maria Schneider.
  • Buy CD - $14.97
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
 
Allen Carter Big Band: Gifts

A collection of contemporary big band music in many styles, this project is a combination of originals and arrangements of jazz classics played by a band full of Los Angeles' best.

Recommended if you like Bob Florence, Count Basie, Gordon Goodwin.
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Terry Vosbein & The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: Progressive Jazz 2009

“Progressive Jazz in the best sense of the word." A twenty-piece Big Band playing hot swing tunes, burning Afro-Cuban numbers and lush ballads in the style of Stan Kenton.

Recommended if you like Maynard Ferguson, Stan Kenton.
  • Buy CD - $14.99
 
Flying Dragon Orchestra: Flying Dragon Orchestra

18 piece modern jazz ensemble fusing traditional big band sounds with many outside influences including classical, alternative, rock, hip-hop, electronica and nu-jazz.

Recommended if you like Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeely, Maria Schneider.
  • Buy CD - $10.00
  • Download Album (MP3) - $8.00
 
The Gathering: Leimert Park: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz

A historic recording of some of the most dynamic and powerful established and up and coming players on the Los Angeles scene

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Fred Hess Big Band: Hold On

My music is described as Acoustic Post-Bop, but is "informed" by all the jazz styles that preceded it. "Hold On" reflects my interest in the past history of jazz, but performed as a contemporary musician.

Recommended if you like Anthony Braxton, Stan Kenton, Thad Jones.
  • Buy CD - $15.00
 
The Jason Lindner Big Band: Live At the Jazz Gallery

Jazzy Experimental Big Band out of New York.

  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
 
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

Recommended if you like John Clayton, Stefon Harris, Thad Jones.
  • Buy CD - $15.00
 
Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: Trench Heroes

Give the best muscians in SF a Monday night to blow their brains out and this is what you get.

Recommended if you like Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones.
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