
Sixth Release by the Concert Jazz Band!
Song list:
“FLYING COLORS”
“Flying Colors” is “top to bottom ... the strongest record, musically, we’ve put out to date,” White said. The album is the latest in a steady stream of releases under White; clearly, the perpetual musical motion both exhausts and satisfies the director. “I’m not really much for sunshine — I spend every summer” at recording engineer “Pete Szkolka’s place,” White joked. “ ... Neither of us tans well, so we’d rather do a CD instead.” As with most of the records, “Flying Colors” primarily revolves around student arrangements, which have grown stronger with each class. “I think our CDs have been a reflection of the development of the program,” White said. The album features multiple-Grammy winner Randy Brecker as well as Mainieri for a tune.
Bringing in respected collaborators gives White a chance to cast vision for his students, to help them see what the future could look like with enough luck and pluck. It “gives our students a view into the world-class window — how good can you be?” he said. But this record also shows how good White’s students already are. “We could do a CD without a guest artist, if we needed to,” he said. “We don’t have to have somebody to help us carry the weight anymore.”
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