Veteran guitarist Chris Flory, who considers the best jazz a basic sound in 4/4 time, has been involved in many swing-to-bop ensembles, concentrating on standards and the early period jazz [more]
Tenor saxophonist Loren Schoenberg led a part-time swing orchestra throughout the 1980s. This definitive set finds his big band playing an arrangement apiece [more]
Although this is technically a set featuring cornetist Peter Ecklund with strings, there is actually no real string section. The "strings" include (on various tracks) guitarists [more]
Veteran guitarist Chris Flory, who considers the best jazz a basic sound in 4/4 time, has been involved in many swing-to-bop ensembles, concentrating on standards and the early period jazz [more]
An excellent swing-based guitarist, Chris Flory first worked professionally in Providence, RI, in 1974. A longtime associate of Scott Hamilton (who he first played with in 1976), Flory has also worked with Benny Goodman (1979-1985), Roy Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet, Bob Wilber, Buddy Tate, and Ruby Braff, among others, and toured China in 1992 with Judy Carmichael. He has appeared on many Concord records, leading two sessions of his own and playing regularly with Hamilton. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide