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Bob Mintzer Big Band Live at Mcg

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Of the three recent Mintzer MCG releases I think this is the best. It opens with a very fun Latin piece followed by a classic love song featuring Kurt Elling's excellent vocals. Then directly following, is a wonderful arrangement of one o'clock jump. This arrangement starts out sounding nothing like the original song. Then suddenly it morphs into it's old, familiar self, only to change back. This is in classic Mintzer style, as first seen on his Camouflage album. What a good time!

The recording quality of this album is superb. Better even than the later DMP recordings. All three of his most recent MCG recordings are superior to any of the DMP recordings (with the exception of "Gently" which is a sonic masterpiece). Among the finest "Live recordings" in my collection!

Highly recommended. If you enjoy Big Band you are sure to LOVE this. :-) .

It is impressive to notice that bigbands have still spread all over the USA after so many years even considering they do not hit the charts anymore.

Maybe one could say some charisma is missing when comparing the current bigbands with the late Count Basie or Stan Kenton but they still carry some charm.

Bob Mintzer is charming. Creative arrangements and good sax solos are his personal difference.

Here you'll find a bunch of his arrangements in a live recording.

Kurt Elling contributes with vocals on 2 tracks, maybe a must for his fans.

When the Rap Genre is finally dead and buried on the scrapheap of discarded American Pop Music styles, I sincerely hope that something like this classic sound takes its place. This album pays homage to the American Big Band Jazz Tradition and is very worthy of anyone's listening time. State of the Art soloists and a superior quality recording make this album very worthy of anybody's CD collection.