The Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band – All Smiles (1968/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

The Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band – All Smiles (1968/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:50 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

In the 1960s the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band became the first important European large jazz ensemble. It was European with an asterisk. Many of the players were American expatriates (drummer/co-leader Clarke, saxophonists Johnny Griffin and Sahib Shihab, trumpeters Benny Bailey and Idrees Sulieman). But co-leader/pianist/arranger Boland was Belgian. England was well represented (saxophonists Ronnie Scott, Derek Humble and Tony Coe, trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar). Trombonists ke Persson and Erik van Lier were from Sweden and the Netherlands, respectively.

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