Washington's Best Kept Military Secret

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Washington's Best Kept Military Secret
JAZZed
5
5
42-47
2010/09
eng
This article focuses on the US Army Blues, its sister jazz big bands the Navy Commodores, the Airmen of Note, and the Jazz Ambassadors. Although perhaps not as adventurous as such exponents of big-band modernism as the Maria Schneider Orchestra or Bob Brookmeyer's New Art Orchestra (to be fair, the bands include both Schneider's and Brookmeyer's arrangements in their books), the military ensembles perform novel arrangements of jazz and pop standards, as well as original compositions, that venture rhythmically and harmonically off the beaten path. These bands, as arms of the military services, the three jazz bands have a largely "public relations function."
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