JBBG – Jazz Bigband Graz: Urban Folktales – review

(ACT)Jazz Bigband Graz was founded in 1998, and has devoted itself to a world music mix from Europe and Africa, and traditional jazz methods coloured by contemporary electronica. Kurt Elling, Take 6 and Jon Hendricks have all guested with JBBG, and the vocalist here is the intriguing Theo Bleckmann, who has interpreted artists as varied as Charles Ives and Kate Bush. The burnished sound of Finnish trumpeter Verneri Pohjola, the inquisitiveness of Italian trombonist Gianluca Petrella and the ton...

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