Ed Puddick Big Band: Guys & Dolls " review by Dave Gelly

(Diving Duck)Just when you thought that the possibilities of the standard big-band format had finally been exhausted, along comes something like this. Probably more than any other musical, Guys and Dolls has been quarried by jazz musicians on account of its jazz-friendly tunes, but Ed Puddick, a young British arranger with a flair for finding unusual angles, has come up with 13 genuinely fresh treatments. From "Fugue…

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