According to Nick Finzer, the trombonist never set out to make a big band album but over time realized that the pieces he’d developed lent themselves to the jazz orchestra format.
Inspired like so many jazz artists by the large-scale projects of Duke Ellington and Gil Evans, Finzer followed their lead for his first full-length big band album and conceived his compositions and arrangements with specific players in mind. As a result, The Jazz Orchestra Volume 1 engages as both a robust big band expression but also one featuring interplay at a small group level involving Finzer and a coterie of colleagues.
The talent pool is impressive, to say the least: among the eighteen-member orchestra Finzer assembled (himself included) are…

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