CD REVIEW

* JAZZ Phil Wilson - The Wizard of Oz Suite (Capri):

No, Toto, it's not a tornado, it's a big band roaring. And composer-arranger-trombone-virtuoso Wilson makes a band roar as well as yearn and soar and swing the blues. He's done it for Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Illinois Jacquet, and now in witty variations on Harold Arlen's film music. Meet the Wicked Witch a la Charlie Parker, the Cowardly Lion as soulful string bass. Munchkins never swung like this. Bonus: ``Perdido'' and five other Wilsonized standards featuring British saxophonist Sir Danny Moss - who, unlike jazz's typical Sirs, Counts, and Dukes, received his title from the queen.

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