Elliot Lawrence Big Band

THE LATEST FROM ELLIOT LAWRENCE BIG BAND

Elliot Lawrence Big Band

Swings Cohn & Kahn

CD ~~$18.98~~ $13.98

RELEASE DATE: 24 Aug 1999

FCD-24761-2

GENRE: JAZZ

This collection of recordings by the Elliot Lawrence band features generous amounts of the work of Tiny Kahn, Johnny Mandel, and Al Cohn, arrangers who in the 1950s set standards by which writers of jazz are still judged. In addition, it presents some of the music's finest soloists: saxophonists Cohn, Zoot Sims, and Hal McKusick; trumpeters Nick Travis and Ernie Royal; and trombonists Eddie Bert and Urbie Green. Straddling the fields of commercial music and jazz, Lawrence provided music for r… MORE