This is an album I've been looking forward to writing about from the moment I created this blog. The product of Playboy Magazine's first jazz poll, Hugh Hefner decided to create an album to honor the winners of the poll. By releasing such a project, Hefner and the folks at Playboy provided a snapshot of [...]
Continuing with the theme of 'arranger jazz', here's an album that is exactly that: an arranger's jazz album, taken to the extreme. So far, I've spotlighted albums that featured different tunes by an arranger, made for a small group of musicians. But what if different arrangers and groups made an album of one song... The [...]
It's A Raggy Waltz 