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Tom Smith's 2025 big-band release A Year in the Life blends orchestral jazz influences, big-band swing grooves, bebop harmony, and metallic guitar interventions.
Home from college in the fervid summer of 1968, Dave Eshelman was determined to put theory into practice. The world was aflame with revolution, unrest and political violence, but the 20-year-old trombonist and budding arranger had his heart set on a far gentler agenda. Recruiting a bevy of veteran musicians, he wanted to present an evening of big band jazz to a hometown audience in Palo Alto.