The Seth Weaver Big Band, Truth | The Vinyl Anachronist

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When I was a kid, I had a friend who played the trombone. After playing for a minute or two, his face would be red and he’d be out of breath and utterly exhausted. Once he handed me his trombone and dared me to produce a single note. I couldn’t. After that, I imagined that the trombone might be one of the toughest instruments to play. What does this have to do with the Seth Weaver Big Band and their new album Truth? That’s easy. Seth Weaver is a trombone player. He also sings, composes and arranges. And yes, he leads an 18-piece big band jazz ensemble. When you listen to Seth Weaver do all this on stage, you have to wonder–is he a superhero? Or was my childhood friend just wimpy? I’ve mentioned here and there that I sometimes get a little burned out if I listen to too much big band jazz. It all starts to sound the same after a while, all horn blasts and big exclamation points. It takes a novel approach, one that’s not so grounded in tradition, to get my ears to perk up. The Seth Weaver Big Band immediately caught my attention, and […]

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