Tasty Tunes is the fifth CD by Ira B. Liss' stalwart San Diego-based Jazz Machine, which was formed almost forty years ago, in 1979—a span that, when reckoned in big-band years, is much closer to a ...
FOR 58 years, Galveston-born big-band leader Manny Green's mantra was smooth, elegant "tempo," making every tune his 12 musicians played draw people irresistibly to the dance floor. His distinctive ...