It's really a luxurious way to present the music harmonically...if you get somebody who really knows how to write for a group that size, you have that sound times 40, magnifying the harmonic aspects of whatever composition you might be talking about.
This project came about because a student of mine at the university where I teach, in Graz [Austria], had arranged one of my tunes for his own big band, which I'm...
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