New West Records released
Big Band of Brothers: A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band.
Released in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Allman Brothers
Band’s debut album, the 10-song set of jazz interpretations of Allman
Brothers Band favorites features Marc Broussard and Ruthie Foster on
vocals on two songs each.
Big Band of Brothers: A Jazz
Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band also features Jack Pearson on
guitar, who performed as a member of the Allman Brothers Band from 1997
to 1999. The celebrated trombonist Wycliffe Gordon of Jazz at Lincoln
Center fame is featured as a soloist on “Don’t Want You No More,” and
wrote the arrangement for “Statesboro Blues.” Gordon is consistently
ranked among leading trombone players in the Downbeat critics poll and
has topped the list at least five times. The 15-piece Big Band of
Brothers was produced by Mark Lanter, Charles Driebe & John Harvey
and was recorded & mixed by Eric Bates at Bates Brothers Recording
in Hueytown, AL.
