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The Bill Holman Band Live
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0783707085708
Format: Live
Label: Jazzed Media
Manufacturer: Jazzed Media
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Jazzed Media
Release Date: June 07, 2005
Studio: Jazzed Media
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Editorial Review:
Grammy Award winning Arranger and Band Leader Bill Holman brings us his jazz big band recorded live in 2004. Bill Holman introduces many new and exciting compositions and arrangements with his star packed LA based jazz big band. The Bill Holman Band is considered the greatest working big band in jazz today.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - That's a load of BH
Bill Holman is a living classic and this CD captures the distinctive sound of his crack arranging in the context of a live performance. The volume doesn't blast your toupee off as a Buddy Rich might-- no performance enhancing substances injected in the chops of the best sidemen in LA, but you marvel at the extent of each guy's abilities.
Holman rehearses with different groups of local 47's best and prepares his set list carefully, telling a story through musical poetry. Bill's the boss.
Rating:  - Incomparable writing, but not his best CD.
There's no question that Bill Holman is a master writer and a living legend. But I was disappointed that the recording quality didn't nearly measure up to Brilliant Corners: The Music Of Thelonious Monk or A View From the Side, each of which exemplify how a big band should be mixed.
Rating: - Holman -- Fresh and Swinging
Not only is this CD Bill Holman live, it could have been entitled "Fresh and Swinging." Holman, from his compositions and arrangements with the Kenton and Herman bands in the 1950s, has evolved himself as THE MAN who captures the essence of a big band. Lush, fresh and swinging, at every turn. Individual tunes aside, the whole performance is not "then" but "now." Any big band fan will more than enjoy this CD more than once.
Tony Agostinelli
Rating: - Clever and fun as always
Yet again Holman comes through with a unique set of compositions and arrangements that are fresh, but have his stamp right on them. My three favorites are Donna Lee, Blue Daniel and Press One. I went so far as to order the arrangements from his publisher Sierra Music to study the scores.
Donna Lee has Mr. Holman's classic counterpoint and motifs that seem to flow right from the bebop melody itself. And he makes the melody unique with the subtlest of touches in doubling it at odd intervals ... Read More
Rating: - The Bill Holman Band Live
This Band is one of the best I have heard of late! I remember Bill Holman working in the 90's with the WDR Big Band (the Radio Big Band of Cologne/Germany). Musicians and audience were raving about his scores.
My favorite is 'Donna Lee', but also 'Zoot 'n' Al' sure is a great tune. Altogether a must CD with great players and music.
Bill Holman did an album with another German Big Band, the SWR Big Band/Germany in 2001: 'Jazz In Concert (Live)'.
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