Host Dave Drexler brings you weekly interviews with the leaders in the local and national arts scene as well as an insider's look at the full range of creative endeavors from the county's musicians, painters, actors and writers.
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Interview in the beginning part of the show.
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In his spirited, insightful liner notes for Mazel Tov Kocktail!, the bold, deliriously hard swinging, sultry and sensual sixth album by his Big Band Jazz Machine, Ira B. Liss quotes the legendary Glenn Miller: “A band ought to have a sound of its own. It ought to have a personality.”
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The music on this album is quite varied with six arrangers who contributed to the compositions, including three by Dan Radlauer, the band's regular composer. He has composed for television, film and more than a thousand commercials.
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Mazel Tov Kocktail! is the big band’s sixth recording and continues to build on their creative vision for a variety of tastefully-rendered material, including many fresh and exciting new compositions such as the spirited opener “Gimme That” by Andrew Neu and featuring him on tenor sax.
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Six, mainly original, instrumentals and six vocal covers by Janet Hammer and Carly Ines. Carly, who's also in the trombone section, sings Chick Corea's High Wire, Love You Madly and Joy Spring. Janet lends her vocal chords to You'd Better Love Me While You May, I Wish You Love and Where or When. Both singers are the real deal.
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