GRP All-Star Big Band - All Blues (1995)

The lineup for this album is incredible - the sax section alone is mind-numbing, featuring Marienthal, Rangell, Watts, Mintzer and Scott. Similarly, the brass has Sandoval, Brecker and Finley... how can such a combination fail to provide great music?
Unlike the previous two GRP All-Star albums, this album is entirely thematic, devoted to tunes in the Blues genre. Fortunately, the compositions are so varied it is not musically limited by this - indeed, it is enriched, as one's ear is drawn towards the many different ways the blues style can be morphed.
I'd still recommend this album without hesitation though to anyone who enjoys a modern big-band sound with incredible solo's punctuating the ensemble work.

Tracklist:
1. Cookin' at the Continental
2. Stormy Monday
3. All Blues
4. Birk's Works
5. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
6. Señor Blues
7. Blue Miles
8. Mysterioso/Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are
9. Some Other Blues
10. Aunt Hagar's Blues