Unforgettable (Fullerton College Jazz Band album)

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Released 1985 Producer Albert Marx Release date 1985		Length 48:43 Unforgettable (1985) Love Ya (1986/1988) Place recorded Fullerton College

Label Discovery Records Trend AM-PM label Artist Fullerton College Jazz Band Genres Jazz, Big band, Instrumental Similar Time Tripping, Primarily Jazz, Escape to Asylum, Piranha, Soundtrack

Unforgettable is a CD released by the Fullerton College Jazz Bands and Jazz Singers for the Discovery Records Trend AM-PM label. The current #1 jazz band on this recording was the winner of the 1985 International Association for Jazz Education Disneyworld Competition and the opening band for the 1985 Playboy Jazz Festival.

Background

In 1981 the Music Department at Fullerton College built a 16 track in house recording facility which was to serve as a teaching tool for both student music groups and students wanting to take recording technology classes at a vocational level. Unforgettable is the fourth of many albums to come out of this studio to feature the award winning Fullerton College Jazz Band. The CD contains tracks from three of the Fullerton College jazz groups: Jazz Band I, Jazz Band II, Vocal Jazz. The recording also includes Fullerton College Jazz Band I on 3 tracks from the 1982 LP release Escape To Asylum that were re-mastered for digital release.

Albert Marx, who was the owner of Discovery Records/Trend Records AM-PM label, became very impressed with the band two years earlier and the level of the music coming from the jazz groups at Fullerton College. He decided to support the younger, up and coming jazz students/players from the greater Los Angeles/Southern California region by producing certain LPs and CDs. Jazz critic Leonard Feather did the liner notes for the CD booklet of Unforgettable, "...I can only offer my congratulations on a job superbly done. In a word Unforgettable."

Track listing

All tracks written by various artists listed.

Recording Sessions

Recorded March 1–3, 1985, Fullerton College, Fullerton, California

Musicians

Conductors: Terry Blackley and James Linahon

Sax (guest soloist): Ernie Del Fante

Trumpet (guest soloist): James Linahon

Saxes and woodwinds: Steve Villa, Jack Cooper, Sarah Kibby Underwood, Harold Manning, Edmund Velasco, Dave Kraus, George Reynoso, Doug Gregan, Steve Page, Luis Segovia, Russell Burt, Yancey Valdez, Dan Freidman, Todd Senn, John Fullerton

Trumpets and flugelhorns: John Deemer, Phillip Wightman, Mike Schwartz, Tim Grindheim, Steve Mattox, Rick Jacobsen, Mark New, Brett Pallet, Jon Aranda, Dave Brown, Tom Cameron, Mark Hough, Mark Hudson

Trombones: Tim Hoff, Tom Griffith, Wendell Kelly, Bob Heller, Pat Aranda, Rick Acosta, Bruce Lansford, Brent Touminen, Frank Payan, Christine Harms, John Shideler

Guitar: Bruce Wall, Jordan Woodruff, Dave Bastien

Piano: John Karlson, Joe Van Gilder, Michael Levan

Bass: Tom Nunes, Carol Chapin, Todd Kreutzer

Drums: Kelly Small, Vince Dublino, Eugean Ermel

Percussion: Pat Ready, Mike Sosnkowski

Vocal Jazz: Patty Figueroa, Rhonda Voorhees, Dorraine Metzger, Sylvia Engle, Terri Peralta, Kerstin Klopsch, Mark Henson, Harlan Harris, Ed McCormick, Seth Weiss, Bruce Hart, Eric Jens

Production

Recording, mixing, re-mixing: James Linahon, Terry Blackley, Alex Cima, Wade McDaniel, Roger Myers

Mastering: Bernie Grundman

Album design: Graham Booth, Fullerton College Art Department

Reception

"...(Fullerton College) deserve(s) an A for effort on their UNFORGETTABLE album. Everything is done very well, and the arranging, especially, shows that a lot of care went into this recording..."

Bob Rusch, Cadence Magazine

Songs

1In the Mood (Garland/Razaf - arr Matt Catingub)4:04
2Unforgettable (Irving Gordon - arr Charlie Argersinger)4:14
3But Beautiful (Van Heusen/Burke - arr Rob McConnell)2:40

References

Unforgettable (Fullerton College Jazz Band album) Wikipedia

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