WDR Big Band Köln diretta da John Clayton, featuring: Joe Williams (voce); Milt Jackson (vibrafono); Cedar Walton (pianoforte); John Clayton (contrabbasso); Jeff Hamilton (batteria). 1. Everyday I ...

Performing in the U.S. for the first time in decades, Germany’s WDR Big Band, with musical director Bob Mintzer, will be among the featured artists at the 58th annual Elmhurst University Jazz Festival ...

Quick and to the Point: WDR’s Latin Big Band offering with D’Rivera, Roditi and others. Big Band Time is yet another showcase for the first-rate WDR Big Band (WDR), featuring Paquito D’Rivera and ...

Tribute to Jaco Pastorius by the WDR Big Band at the 33 Leverkusener Jazztage 2012 Germany WDR BIG BAND conducted by VINCE MENDOZA plays Jaco Pastorius compositions VICTOR BAILEY bass PETER ERSKINE ...

Early in the first set of a two-night/four-show run at Birdland by the WDR Big Band, its musical director, Bob Mintzer, gave the capacity crowd a brief bit of background on the ensemble we were ...

Zawinul is onstage with the WDR Big Band from Germany and a special international rhythm section. The music is a tribute to the pioneering 1970s fusion collective Weather Report, originally with Wayne ...

Pianist Fred Hersch always seems to have a new project on the go: his latest release sees him teaming up with the WDR Big Band, who also enlisted the help of Vince Mendoza to arrange Hersch's tunes ...

Vince Mendoza won a Grammy for his arrangements of Joni Mitchell’s reinterpretations of standards for orchestra and he has also worked with Joe Zawinul and Bjork. Here he is in very different terrain, ...

Pianist composer Bill Laurance loved Brad Mehldau's record The Art of the Trio and listened to Radiohead and Roni Size as a teenager which, he says, is reflected in chords on the middle section of ...