Holiday Jazz Blizzard

Holiday Jazz Blizzard

Track Listings

1. Snowball

2. Jingle Bells

3. Sleigh Ride

4. Let It Snow

5. Nutcracker Overture

6. Peanut Brittle Brigade

7. Sugar Run Cherry

8. Vodka Vouty

9. Dance of the Floreadors

10. A Child is Born

11. March of the Toy Soldiers

12. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

13. Good King Wenceslas

14. The Christmas Song

15. We Three Kings

16. Santa Claus is Coming To Town

17. Little Drummer Boy

18. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
The North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the state's most celebrated jazz orchestra, has been delighting North Carolina audiences since its inception in 1993. The NCJRO maintains a large library of repertory jazz featuring music from the Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, and Stan Kenton orchestras. The orchestra also continues to celebrate the ongoing legacy of big band music by regularly performing music by Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Thad Jones, Bob Mintzer, Tom Harrell, as well as staff writers William Fritz and Gregg Gelb. The North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra continually receives accolades from across the state having received numerous "Top Ten," and "Best of.." Awards from the Spectator and the Independent. During the 1999 Ellington Centennial, the orchestra released a compact disc Duke Ellington: A Centennial Collection on Metro Records that was selected by the New York-based Duke Ellington Society as among the best releases of the year. The orchestra also performed the Ellington Sacred Concert at Duke Chapel and Ellington's Harlem Suite with the North Carolina Symphony under the baton of William Curry. In addition to an active concert schedule, the NCJRO maintains an active presence in the jazz education scene providing clinics and educational programs across the state. Founded in early 1993, by James Ketch and Gregg Gelb, The North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra has already established a name for itself as one of the great jazz repertory orchestras now playing. Mr. Ketch, the Music Director of the orchestra, is a Professor of Music and the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The eighteen piece orchestra features the finest professional jazz musicians in North Carolina. The musicians of The North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra have championed the Jazz Art Form in locations from Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Piccolo Spoleto, and the Middle East, and in the recording studio, clinic, and classroom. Many of the musicians are educators serving institutions of higher learning including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pembroke State University, East Carolina University, North Carolina Central University, and Duke University. The NCJRO performs classic jazz and big band music such as that of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Harry James, Jimmie Lunceford, Thad Jones, Bill Holman, Maynard Ferguson, Tom Harrell, and Glenn Miller. This music is rarely performed professionally today outside of major metropolitan areas; yet the NCJRO travels far and frequently to bring this uniquely American art to communities all over North Carolina. The orchestra also introduces children to jazz and big band music by presenting special programs in schools. The NCJRO has recorded three compact discs: "Holiday Blizzard," released in December 1997; "Duke Ellington -- A Centennial Collection" and "Benny Goodman -- The Swing Collection" both released in the fall of 1998. As part of the centennial celebration of Duke Ellington's birth in 1899, the NCJRO has a number of Ellington events planned including three concerts with the North Carolina Symphony, an all-Billy Stayhorn concert during the Carolina Jazz Festival, and a repeat of Ellington's "Sacred Concert," a program described by one national jazz writer as "Jazz's finest hour in North Carolina." The NCJRO is sustained by ticket sales, individual donor-patrons, and the North Carolina Jazz Foundation, which secures corporate and foundation support. Trumpeter Jim Ketch is music director of the orchestra.

Product Description
The NCJRO's Holiday Jazz Blizzard is indeed a swinging CD! Augmenting popular holiday music previously recorded by Ellington (his arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite"), Miller, and Kenton, the NCJRO adds arrangements from other skillful writers including the orchestra's own William Fritz (formerly with Kenton) and Gregg GeIb to create quite the wintry musical blast!

Holiday Jazz Blizzard

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Holiday Jazz Blizzard

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