Lickety Split: Music of Jim McNeely

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Catalogue No: NW80534
Label: New World
Length: 69 minutes

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McNeely: Extra Credit

Work length8:51

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Ed Neumeister, Jim McNeely, Scott Wendholt, Rich Perry
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

McNeely: Thad

Work length12:02

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Scott Wendholt, John Mosca, Jim McNeely
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

David Mann, Bob Hilliard: In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning

Work length7:41

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Dick Oatts
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

McNeely: Lickety Split

Work length7:51

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Gary Smulyan
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

McNeely: Absolution

Work length8:17

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Rich Perry
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

McNeely: Sticks

Work length7:37

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Ed Neumeister
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

McNeely: Reflection

Work length8:37

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Billy Drewes
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

McNeely: Mel

Work length8:46

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John Riley, Dennis Irwin, Ralph LaLama
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

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The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra is the current title for the band that began life as the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1966 and has performed continuously ever since. The band's Monday-night performances at New York's Village Vanguard for the last thirty-one years is a tradition without parallel.

This CD-their first recording in seven years-features the compositions of internationally-known composer and arranger Jim McNeely. McNeely freely acknowledges the deep influences of Thad Jones and Bob Brookmeyer, and the echoes are easy to hear. His total command of the harmony, colors, and textures available from a jazz orchestra, plus a superior sense of form and development is evident throughout. Mix in his knowledge of the unique tonal qualities of his bandmates and what you've got is 60 plus minutes of fiercely swinging (Thad, Mel), lyrical (In The Wee Small Hours, Reflection), wild and woolly (Lickety Split, Sticks), reflective (Absolution) music that honors not only the band’s glorious tradition but the big band tradition itself. The jaw-dropping ensemble blend on Mel, to cite just one example, will dispel all doubts.

Quiet as it’s been kept, Jim McNeely is one of the most impressive jazz composers to emerge in the past decade, and he couldn't have a better ensemble to play his writing than this one. One of the greatest big bands in jazz history isn't just history. It’s right now, and still growing. Just listen.

Lickety Split: Music of Jim McNeely

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