(10 Brass w/ optional clarinet) Recorded by The Bigtime Jazz Orchestra of Minnesota, this ballad sax section feature opens with rubato unaccompanied saxes giving way to a double-time, medium groove and a swinging soli. Solos also for trombone, bass and drums. Alto I on soprano all the way.
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MICHAEL PAGÁN is Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Ottawa University in Kansas. There he directs the Bravo! jazz singers and teaches jazz piano, theory, composition, arranging, and other jazz-related courses. He holds graduate degrees from Northwestern University and Kent State University in composition. Pagán has served as Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Interim Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has taught at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance. He is in high demand as a jazz pianist in Kansas City and has performed for forty years throughout the US and in Europe. As a composer/arranger he has garnered many awards, producing over 150 works, mainly in the jazz idiom. His music can be heard on the ARC, Cadence, Capri, Dutch Music Partners, and Tapestry labels.
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