Swr Big Band A Fresh Taste Of Thad Jones & Frank Foster (2006)

An outstanding Big Band led by Frank Foster, playing a mixed repertoire of re-arranged Basie classics & new compositions. A very sucessful project, and an album that will surely be in your playlist for a very long time.

One More: The Summary - Music Of Thad Jones, Vol 2 is a 2006 collaborative album between Eddie Daniels, Richard Davis, Benny Golson, Hank Jones, James Moody, John Mosca, Jimmy Owens, Kenny Washington and Frank Wess. This was released by IPO Recordings.

Founded in 1951 by Erwin Lehn, the SWR Big Band has been nominated several times for a GRAMMY Award and received the German Jazz Award (Gold) in 2015.

Seventeen musicians-one sound. And a very convincing sound, at that. The SWR Big Band has so far been nominated four times for a Grammy - the most important music award in the world. Also it received in 2015 a Jazz Award in Cold ffom German music industry. Enjoyed a great honor in 2011, when it was the first German band ever suggested for the "Premio da Musica Brasileira", Brazil's most important music award. In the face of so much fame, it seems almost modest to say that the SWR Big Band is one of the best big bands in the world.

A Sweet Taste Of Westbound is a 1996 compilation CD tilting the spotlight rays onto the Michigan recording label known as Westbound Records. It is not to be an accurate look at the best of Westbound, for there cannot be that unless you made it yourself and you could but you didn't try so there. It is just a mere sweet taste of Westbound, and now you can have a taste of its soul, its funk, its jazz, and its disco. Finger and spread this. This was released by Westbound/Ace.

This is indeed a sweet taste of Detroit based Westbound artists presenting some of their best tracks available on individual albums. Higlights are many from the Counts' Rhythm changes, the symphonic soul of Baby let me take you, the Funkadelic funk of Cookie jar, the Ohio Players with Junie to unknowns Robert Lowe and Donald Austin with funky instrumentals and the disco pioneers of Mike Theodore. The previously unreleased Everything's gonna be alright closes off in style this great compilation at a bargain price.

Frank Foster's Loud Minority big band was formed in the early 1970s, and made a raucous, politically oriented funk-fusion type recording for the Mainstream label.There's absolutely no filler, no wasted motion or excess, and nothing but solid musicianship on this guaranteed gold recording that ranks with the very best that modern big-band jazz has to offer. It belongs in every collection.