RIYL: Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Tom Kubis
City: Fort Worth, TX
Web site: http://www.jazzmonsters.com
The Jazz Monsters Big Band is a 20 piece professional jazz band consisting of 5 saxes, 5 trombones, 5 trumpets, piano, bass, drums, guitar and auxiliary percussion. Their big band library includes jazz compositions and arrangements from a variety of jazz sources such as Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Tom Kubis and many others.
Information from the band's site
Musicians
- Clyde Jones: saxophone
- Janet Schupp: saxophone
- Roger Pace: saxophone
- Rene Ozuna: saxophone
- Randy Firth: saxophone
- Larry Harrison: trumpet
- Don Thomas: trumpet
- Darrell McCown: trumpet
- James Warden: trumpet
- Chuck Compher: trombone
- Chuck Compher Jr.: trombone
- Gary Barkey: trombone
- Gary Phillips: trombone
- Brandi Tagg: trombone
- Jerry Samuels: piano
- Jim Sharples: bass
- Keith Umbach: drums
- Rick Ritz: guitar
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