The Jeff Benedict Big Big Band, The Weather Is Here… | The Vinyl Anachronist

This new album from the Jeff Benedict Big Big Band (website) turned me into a mess for a few hours. That’s mostly because of the title: The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful.  I’m not a Jimmy Buffett fan, so I took this title rather literally and questioned whether it was a bit tone deaf. I wrote up about a paragraph and a half, and I stopped at mid-sentence. This isn’t turning out the way I thought. Sax player Jeff Benedict is a talented performer as well as bandleader, and I enjoyed the last release with guitarist Dave Askren. Maybe I’m tired. It’s been a long day. I should just go to sleep. So I saved the draft and planned on re-attacking this album in the morning. Funny thing is, the Jeff Benedict review was accidentally published in the morning. As is. I even hated my photo of the album cover and I was totally going to retake one. By that time, I was told by a friend that the title was a reference to Buffett, and Benedict’s peeps had sent an email telling me the irony of the album title and that the whole concept was big band […]