Schapiro17: New Shoes: Kind Of Blue At 60 | |
Review
by Willard Manus I recently
spent the best two hours of my life listening to SCHAPIRO17: NEW SHOES:
KIND OF BLUE AT 60. The two-disc album, the brainchild of composer/conductor/arranger
Jon Schapiro, pays tribute to Miles Davis' iconic CD, "Kind of Blue,
which has just celebrated its 60th anniversary. Schapiro, a member of
the BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop and a long-time professor at Yeshiva
University, has headed a big band since 2012. Based in NYC, the band features
such stalwart jazz musicians as Brian Davis, Walter Harris, Roberta Piket
and Candace DeBartolo--all of whom strut their stuff on SCHAPIRO17. |
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