Frank Foster’s Loud Minority Big Band is more limber than loud — although it doesn’t shrink from shouting whenever that’s appropriate on this persuasive in-concert album recorded in June ‘02 at NYC’s ...

None of the music on Fresh Taste is actually fresh, having been recorded in 1994-96 when the SWR Big Band was still the SDR, and previously issued on CD—but that doesn't mean it need be any less ...

Multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger Frank Foster, a key member of the Count Basie Orchestra who led the band after its leader’s death, died July 26 of kidney failure in Chesapeake, Virg. He ...