U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY STAGE BAND: NOT YACHT ROCK

Naval Academy Stage Band: Channels Kool and the Gang From Wind and Song (USNA, 1970) Jazz purists may hate the late ’60s/early ’70s with a passion for all the funky big band that got recorded in that era…and they’d have a point insofar as a lot of crappy music was being made. But occasionally, you’ll come across something that now seems cool despite itself and while we may not consider – today – a military band being particularly funky, in 1970, it seems like the Navy was [...]...

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