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| 1. | My Romance
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| 2. | Where or When
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| 3. | L-O-V-E
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| 4. | Watch What Happens
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| 5. | I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
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| 6. | Wonderland
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| 7. | I'll Be Around
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| 8. | This Can't Be Love
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| 9. | Avalon
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| 10. | My Foolish Heart
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| 11. | More Than You Know
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| 12. | Teach Me Tonight
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| 13. | My Funny Valentine
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Jazz
Brent Wallarab: Arranger, conductor, trombone
Mike Stricklin: Woodwinds
Rob Dixon: Woodwinds
Tom Meyer: Woodwinds
Jeff Conrad: Trumpet and flugelhorn
Mark Buselli: Trumpet and flugelhorn
Loy Hetrick: Trombone
Richard Dole: Bass trombone
Celeste Holler-Seraphinoff: Horn
Luke Gillespie: Piano
Jack Helsley: Bass
Bryson Kern: Drums
Deno Sanders: Drums
Everett Greene: Vocals
Cynthia Layne: Vocals
When Mark Buselli and I started the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra back in 1994, our conception was that of an entirely instrumental group. While we were not opposed to including vocalists from time to time, this was not our primary artistic objective. Yet, here we are 14 years later, presenting our third collaboration with Everett Green. There are many competent vocalists who aspire to sing with a big band, but artists like Everett are one in a million. From the first moment we shared the stage with this gracious and class gentleman, we embraced a partnership that has been inspiring and rich with musical reward. These arrangements were scored specifically to be presented at our annual concerts held on or around Valentine’s Day with no plans to record. However, in listening to Everett sing Alec Wilder’s gem: “I’ll Be Around” or Lerner and Lowe’s beautifully reflective “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face”, you’ll know why we decided to share this music with a larger audience. Guest vocalist Cynthia Lane provides a welcome feminine counterpoint to Greene and we are sure you will enjoy the performances of this remarkable woman.
The music featured here is from our smaller big band formation, influenced somewhat by the ensembles of Marty Paitch: 2 trumpets, trombone, bass trombone, French horn, 3 saxes, and 3 rhythm. Economic advantages aside, this set-up provides a lighter sound, more intimate in many ways, yet capable of producing the impact of a full big band. Many of the arrangements are consciously smaller-scale as well. Sometimes, a single statement of the tune is all that is needed, as repetition can diffuse the intimacy of simple poetry.
Thanks for listening. -- Brent Wallarab...
The Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra's Where or When is an elegantly constructed piece of music. It's 13 tracks run the gamut of swinging big band magic and tender, gentle balladry. With Layne and Green providing remarkable vocals and the band's professionalism cruising passionately, Where or When makes for a terrific nightcap. - PICO (BlogCritics Magazine)
The CD is completely of standards, which alone ought to prove attractive, especially when Wallarab & Buselli favor Hart & Rodgers so much. More, Rob Dixon from the Dixon-Rhyne Project (reviewed here) is a group member, sitting in on tenor, though of a markedly different flavor from that marvelous fusion group. As if all this weren't enough, both the band leaders have been called upon by the creme de la creme for their arranging talents: Wynton & Branford Marsalis, Makoto Ozone, Natalie Cole, The Count Basie Band, The Artie Shaw Band, and many others. If there's higher praise for this sort of sound, I'm damned if I know what it is. - MARK S. TURNER (F.A.M.E)
The Indianapolis based big band of trumpeter Mark Buselli and trombonist Brent Wallarab was formed in 1994 as a group that focused on instrumental arrangements and compositions. They also produced a fine effort, Carol of the Bells, in 2007, dedicated to adaptations of holiday music, and have worked with local jazz singers. Here the band hands centerstage over to the underappreciated singer Everett Greene, who uses his deep bass baritone much in the style of Billy Eckstine or Joe Williams, but has his own personalized way of phrasing that identifies him as an incurable romantic. He's not without his kick of blues or splash of fun, but he basically tugs at heartstrings and offers dissertations of unrequited love. The downsized arrangements are similar to what a modern-day Count Basie might utilize, but they are a trifle heftier, admittedly influenced by Marty Paich, with a balanced instrumentation between saxes and brass. As the charts are smaller, the concentrated sound of the group is not, supplying a rich tapestry of colors to illuminate the singing of the profoundly wise Greene. He's effectively using vocal embers instead of flames with French horn and brass asides on "My Romance," and is perfectly melancholy during "I'll Be Around." Most like Joe Williams, Greene convincingly sings the wishfully thinking "Where or When" with an Ernie Wilkins-like arrangement, goes to a lighter side on the bossa nova flavored "Watch What Happens," or is reflectively triggered by the flute of Mike Stricklin with the horns trailing along during the ballad "My Foolish Heart." If you enjoy the singing of Greene, heard here at age 72, please refer to his 1998 Savant label CD also titled My Foolish Heart. Cynthia Layne is the singer for three tracks that are also very good, and showcase her pliable, perfect pitch, sophisticated voice. The contemporary arrangement of "L-O-V-E" sports a sensual and spiritual confluence with Stricklin's soprano as the base color, "Avalon" is the hottest bopper of the set with the energetic counterpointed cross section horns urging Layne onward, while "Teach Me Tonight" is a straight blues. There are two instrumentals; the easy swinging and gentle "Wonderland" and the expanded, rearranged treatment of "More Than You Know." Buselli and Wallarab are more than capable musicians and soloists, tenor saxophonist Rob Dixon and Stricklin are the rising stars deserving some national acclaim, while pianist Luke Gillespie is very worthy of some notice in his deft phrasings and shadings of these pieces out of the limelight. Territory bands have been around since the dawn of the big-band era, and because of economics, this band may not be in your town soon. Buying this CD will somewhat rectify that problem. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide |
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