Recent Experimental Big Band Releases

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  Michael Leonhart / Michael Leonhart …
  The Normyn Suites
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  An ambitious evocation of grief and love inspired by the memory of the trumpeter/bandleader's beloved dog.

  - Matt Collar
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  Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain 196 …
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  Inexpensive two-disc overview of Brit jazz's first wave of innovation from the mid-'60s thru the early 1970s by its biggest names.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Sun Ra
  Egypt 1971
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  Archival documentation of Sun Ra's last-minute 1971 Egyptian concerts adds ample unreleased material to recordings previously issued as piecemeal albums.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Fire! Orchestra
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  Mats Gustafsson presents a bracing, extended presentation of Krysztof Penderecki's historic 1971 score with new sonic and musical referents.

  - Thom Jurek