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“If you, like me, love great trumpet playing, Collaboration (Summit – 713) by MIKE VAX & RON ROMM is a must have album. Vax is best known for his time spent as the lead trumpet on Stan Kenton’s Orchestra, and his subsequent efforts to keep the Kenton legacy alive through many educational projects and leadership of the Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra. Romm was a founder and long time member of the Canadian Brass and currently serves as Professor of Trumpet at the University of Illinois. These two gentlemen have been friends for decades, and have talked about recording together for much of that time, but until recently circumstances stood in the way of that happening.

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This show features two world-renowned trumpet players who made their marks in different musical genres - Vax in jazz as co-leader of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, and Romm as a principal in the classical Canadian Brass. As their tours crossed paths around the world over 45 years, Vax and Romm mused about doing an album together. Finally recorded this summer at The Nash, “Collaboration” personifies their relentless passion for the music through an eclectic repertoire ranging from a Gospel Hymn and Hayden Concerto to Coronet Chop Suey, The Summer Knows, The Shadow of Your Smile, to Clifford Brown and BeBop. This CD release party will recreate some of the great moments of project, performed by the original cast of characters.

by Bernice L. Hausman (Author)
Antivaxxers are crazy. That is the perception we all gain from the media, the internet, celebrities, and beyond, writes Bernice Hausman in Anti/Vax, but we need to open our eyes and ears so that we can all have a better conversation about vaccine skepticism and its implications