Listening to this, though, makes you appreciate the bigband greats... keeping that number of players in the pocket, in the groove, took talent and dedication hard to imagine. Sadly, these guys don't quite get it.

Not that it's bad... far from it..! But an up-tempo piece like this either has to be ON, or not attempted.
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