This is an awesome ensemble on all counts: writing, soloing and swinging - Ed Soph. Multi-instrumentalist Vince Norman and drummer Joe McCarthy gather together some of the finest big band players on the eastern seaboard to create a creative and swinging album of modern jazz. Part big band and part small group workings, the album balances the intensity of the big band with wide open improvisations on nine original compositions by Vince Norman.
8 Suite Baby Ray: I Left My Baby in Baltimore 6:26
9 Suite Baby Ray: Back to Bayview 6:21
10 Suite Baby Ray: Coming Home 4:50
This is an awesome ensemble on all counts: writing, soloing and swinging - Ed Soph. Multi-instrumentalist Vince Norman and drummer Joe McCarthy gather together some of the finest big band players on the eastern seaboard to create a creative and swinging album of modern jazz. Part big band and part small group workings, the album balances the intensity of the big band with wide open improvisations on nine original compositions by Vince Norman.