Bob Curnow
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Bob Curnow is an American musician who served as a trombonist, staff arranger and producer for the Stan Kenton Orchestra during the 1960's and 1970's. As a composer and arranger he has become well known for large ensemble jazz music set to contemporary fusion and rock music of groups such as Chicago
, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and the Yellowjackets. Most notably he arranged the music for and produced the award winning and critically acclaimed CD, Bob Curnow’s L.A. Big Band Plays The Music of Pat Metheny
and Lyle Mays
. His compositions and arrangments are heavily influenced by earlier writers for the Stan Kenton Orchestra such as Pete Rugolo
, Bill Russo, Johnny Richards and Bill Holman
. Curnow is currently owner and President of Sierra Music Publications, Inc., he is also prominent in the instrumental music and Jazz Education
fields.
and was first exposed to music through learning the trumpet at age 9 but then switched to baritone horn
. He ultimately started to play the trombone
at age 12. Curnow had started high school when he first heard the Stan Kenton Orchestra with Kai Winding
on the 45 single Collaboration. In addition to learning the trombone Curnow was doing a great deal of transcribing big band music and eventually of the Kenton band composers. During college he first met Stan Kenton in person in 1961 during the Stan Kenton Band Clinics
. Curnow worked his way through college playing the string bass, he graduated from West Chester University of Pennsylvania
in May of 1963.
Orchestra at the age of 21 touring all of the United States
and the U.K. through the end of November; this was the last of Kenton's Mellophonium Bands and the group disbanded after this tour until 1965. During this tour Curnow had arranged "God Save The Queen
" for the orchestra; this would be his entry into the cadre of Kenton composers and arrangers. He recorded in the trombone
section of the Kenton Orchestra for Capitol Records
on the LP's Artistry In Voices And Brass and From The Creative World Of Stan Kenton Comes Jean Turner.
After leaving the Stan Kenton Orchestra he did graduate work at Michigan State University
in East Lansing, Michigan
from 1964 through 1967 earning two masters degrees and completing his doctoral course work. He served as Professor of Instrumental Music and director of the Jazz Lab bands at Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio
from 1967 through 1973.
By 1971 Curnow was contacted again by Stan Kenton
to do the arrangements for a new concept, double LP, National Anthems Of The World. Kenton remembered the earlier arrangement done in 1963 of "God Save The Queen
", this sparked the interest of Kenton and led to Curnow serving as chief arranger, conductor, and the producer for the new 1972 concept album. Though the recordings ended up being a commercial failure for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, the project became a high point for Curnow as an arranger and record producer. After the National Anthems project Curnow stepped in on numerous dates for an ailing Kenton to conduct during that next year.
In June of 1973, at the age of 31, Curnow was hired as the Director of Artists & Repertoire; by August Kenton fired the general manager and Curnow was in charge of the complete Creative World operations. Starting with the LP 7.5 On The Richter Scale, Curnow was the producer for 6 of the final 7 Stan Kenton
studio albums for Creative World leading up to Kenton's death in August of 1979. He also oversaw the re-issue of numerous LP's from Kenton's Capitol Records
catalogue. During this tenure with Kenton he was in charge as composer, arranger, and producer one of the last commercial successes the band was to have with Kenton Plays Chicago
.
During this period as a younger composer, arranger and producer, Curnow was able to help usher in a new, more vital concept and style for the orchestra which helped appeal to a younger music audience of the post big band/rock n' roll era. Due to deteriorating business conditions with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and Creative World Records, Curnow resigned from his post in 1976. Curnow is quoted as to the frustration he encountered, "I was burnt out...I really didn't like the record business...it's a dirty game working with the big players and all the crap that goes on there". Kenton's 1977 album Journey To Capricorn would be the last studio-produced project for the orchestra and the final LP for which Curnow served as producer for Creative World.
In 1976 Curnow accepted the position as Director of Jazz Studies at California State University, Los Angeles
; he held that position until 1987. He conducted the award winning No. 1 Jazz Ensemble, the Brass Ensemble, Symphonic Band and the Wind Ensemble. For eight years (1981-1989) Curnow also directed the McDonald's
All-American High School Jazz Band, touring the country and discovering many talented young jazz players.
In 1982 Curnow revisited the idea of rock/fusion music
played by a large jazz ensemble through the music of the Pat Metheny Group
. Curnow ultimately penned some twelve arrangements of compositions by Pat Metheny and/or Lyle Mays; the initial arrangement of Metheny's The First Circle
was tested out and recorded on a critically acclaimed school jazz LP at California State University, Los Angeles
. These works and the resulting CD album from 1994, Bob Curnow’s L.A. Big Band Plays the Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays stands as a prime example of the art of arranging for large jazz ensemble in a contemporary setting.
Since 1976 Curnow has been the C.E.O. of Sierra Music Publications, Inc. and currently resides in Liberty Lake, Washington
. The company is the exclusive publisher of music from the Stan Kenton Orchestra library as well as many other important and historic large jazz ensemble scores. The company is currently overseeing the production of large ensemble music of the rock/pop group Radiohead
.
In 2005, Curnow was given the Distinguished Music Alumnus Award by the West Chester University of Pennsylvania
School of Music. Curnow has donated almost $60,000 worth of musical compositions, CDs and books to the School of Music Jazz Studies Area.
and has been very involved since being a part of the well known Stan Kenton Band Clinics
when first associated with the group in 1963. As well as holding academic positions at universities, he has served as a guest conductor and educational clinician for groups and organizations throughout the United States
and Canada
. He has served as a guest artist, adjudicator, conductor, or clinician at colleges and jazz festivals over the past 30 years throughout the world. Numerous students Curnow have worked with have gone onto have very successful music careers such as Danny House, Phil Feather, Luis Bonilla
, Charlie Richard, Jack Cooper
, John Hollenbeck
, Christopher Hollyday, Geoff Keezer
, Don Braden
, Wycliffe Gordon
, Greg Gisbert
, Loran McClung, Tony Kadlick, John Bailey, Javon Jackson
, John Medeski
, Neal Finn, and Delfaeyo Marsalis.
Chicago (band)
Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and the Yellowjackets. Most notably he arranged the music for and produced the award winning and critically acclaimed CD, Bob Curnow’s L.A. Big Band Plays The Music of Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
and Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays is an American jazz pianist and composer from Wausaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny as a member of the Pat Metheny Group...
. His compositions and arrangments are heavily influenced by earlier writers for the Stan Kenton Orchestra such as Pete Rugolo
Pete Rugolo
Pietro "Pete" Rugolo was an Italian-born jazz composer and arranger.-Life and career:Rugolo was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily, Italy. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Santa Rosa, California...
, Bill Russo, Johnny Richards and Bill Holman
Bill Holman (musician)
Willis Leonard Holman , known also as Bill Holman, is an American composer/arranger, conductor, saxophonist, and songwriter working primarily in the jazz idiom....
. Curnow is currently owner and President of Sierra Music Publications, Inc., he is also prominent in the instrumental music and Jazz Education
Jazz Education
- Non-academic :* ca. 1890: Jenkins Orphanage Bands. The Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins established an orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina.* 1890s: Alpha Cottage School An orphanage in Kingston, Jamaica offering a music programme....
fields.
Early life, musical education and influences
Bob Curnow was born and grew up in Easton, PennsylvaniaEaston, Pennsylvania
Easton is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Northampton County....
and was first exposed to music through learning the trumpet at age 9 but then switched to baritone horn
Baritone horn
The baritone horn is a member of the brass instrument family. The baritone horn has a predominantly cylindrical bore as do the trumpet and trombone. A baritone horn uses a large mouthpiece much like those of a trombone or euphonium, although it is a bit smaller. Some baritone mouthpieces will sink...
. He ultimately started to play the trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
at age 12. Curnow had started high school when he first heard the Stan Kenton Orchestra with Kai Winding
Kai Winding
Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson.-Biography:...
on the 45 single Collaboration. In addition to learning the trombone Curnow was doing a great deal of transcribing big band music and eventually of the Kenton band composers. During college he first met Stan Kenton in person in 1961 during the Stan Kenton Band Clinics
Stan Kenton Band Clinics
Stan Kenton Band Clinics were summer programs founded by Stan Kenton in 1959. Kenton conceived the idea out of concern that education of jazz and all its forms were not reaching teenagers who showed signs of interest in it...
. Curnow worked his way through college playing the string bass, he graduated from West Chester University of Pennsylvania
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
West Chester University of Pennsylvania is a public university located in West Chester, Pennsylvania, about miles west of Philadelphia. It is one of the 14 state universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education . West Chester was ranked 69th in the Master's Universities ...
in May of 1963.
Professional career
On May 19 of 1963 (1 day after college graduation) Bob Curnow started as a trombonist with the Stan KentonStan Kenton
Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....
Orchestra at the age of 21 touring all of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and the U.K. through the end of November; this was the last of Kenton's Mellophonium Bands and the group disbanded after this tour until 1965. During this tour Curnow had arranged "God Save The Queen
God Save the Queen
"God Save the Queen" is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms and British Crown Dependencies. The words of the song, like its title, are adapted to the gender of the current monarch, with "King" replacing "Queen", "he" replacing "she", and so forth, when a king reigns...
" for the orchestra; this would be his entry into the cadre of Kenton composers and arrangers. He recorded in the trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
section of the Kenton Orchestra for Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
on the LP's Artistry In Voices And Brass and From The Creative World Of Stan Kenton Comes Jean Turner.
After leaving the Stan Kenton Orchestra he did graduate work at Michigan State University
Michigan State University
Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
in East Lansing, Michigan
East Lansing, Michigan
East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. The population was 48,579 at the time of the 2010 census, an increase from...
from 1964 through 1967 earning two masters degrees and completing his doctoral course work. He served as Professor of Instrumental Music and director of the Jazz Lab bands at Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
in Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
from 1967 through 1973.
By 1971 Curnow was contacted again by Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton
Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....
to do the arrangements for a new concept, double LP, National Anthems Of The World. Kenton remembered the earlier arrangement done in 1963 of "God Save The Queen
God Save the Queen
"God Save the Queen" is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms and British Crown Dependencies. The words of the song, like its title, are adapted to the gender of the current monarch, with "King" replacing "Queen", "he" replacing "she", and so forth, when a king reigns...
", this sparked the interest of Kenton and led to Curnow serving as chief arranger, conductor, and the producer for the new 1972 concept album. Though the recordings ended up being a commercial failure for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, the project became a high point for Curnow as an arranger and record producer. After the National Anthems project Curnow stepped in on numerous dates for an ailing Kenton to conduct during that next year.
In June of 1973, at the age of 31, Curnow was hired as the Director of Artists & Repertoire; by August Kenton fired the general manager and Curnow was in charge of the complete Creative World operations. Starting with the LP 7.5 On The Richter Scale, Curnow was the producer for 6 of the final 7 Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton
Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....
studio albums for Creative World leading up to Kenton's death in August of 1979. He also oversaw the re-issue of numerous LP's from Kenton's Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
catalogue. During this tenure with Kenton he was in charge as composer, arranger, and producer one of the last commercial successes the band was to have with Kenton Plays Chicago
Chicago (band)
Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
.
During this period as a younger composer, arranger and producer, Curnow was able to help usher in a new, more vital concept and style for the orchestra which helped appeal to a younger music audience of the post big band/rock n' roll era. Due to deteriorating business conditions with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and Creative World Records, Curnow resigned from his post in 1976. Curnow is quoted as to the frustration he encountered, "I was burnt out...I really didn't like the record business...it's a dirty game working with the big players and all the crap that goes on there". Kenton's 1977 album Journey To Capricorn would be the last studio-produced project for the orchestra and the final LP for which Curnow served as producer for Creative World.
In 1976 Curnow accepted the position as Director of Jazz Studies at California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles is a public comprehensive university, part of the California State University system...
; he held that position until 1987. He conducted the award winning No. 1 Jazz Ensemble, the Brass Ensemble, Symphonic Band and the Wind Ensemble. For eight years (1981-1989) Curnow also directed the McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
All-American High School Jazz Band, touring the country and discovering many talented young jazz players.
In 1982 Curnow revisited the idea of rock/fusion music
Fusion Music
Fusion Music is a sub genre of Reggaeton. Calle 13 helped introduce this genre, and are the most famous artists to sing it. It's also known as Alternative Reggaeton. Danny Fornaris is the most famous producer in this sub-genre, known as its Luny Tunes...
played by a large jazz ensemble through the music of the Pat Metheny Group
Pat Metheny Group
The Pat Metheny Group is a jazz group founded in 1977. The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist Lyle Mays , and bassist and producer Steve Rodby...
. Curnow ultimately penned some twelve arrangements of compositions by Pat Metheny and/or Lyle Mays; the initial arrangement of Metheny's The First Circle
First Circle (album)
First Circle is a Grammy Award winning album by Pat Metheny Group released in 1984. On the album Pat Metheny is joined by Lyle Mays on piano and keyboards, Steve Rodby on bass, drummer Paul Wertico and vocalist and percussionist Pedro Aznar...
was tested out and recorded on a critically acclaimed school jazz LP at California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles is a public comprehensive university, part of the California State University system...
. These works and the resulting CD album from 1994, Bob Curnow’s L.A. Big Band Plays the Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays stands as a prime example of the art of arranging for large jazz ensemble in a contemporary setting.
Since 1976 Curnow has been the C.E.O. of Sierra Music Publications, Inc. and currently resides in Liberty Lake, Washington
Liberty Lake, Washington
Liberty Lake is an incorporated city in Spokane County, Washington, United States, on the Idaho state line. Liberty Lake is a suburb of Spokane, Washington. Thus, it is situated between Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho...
. The company is the exclusive publisher of music from the Stan Kenton Orchestra library as well as many other important and historic large jazz ensemble scores. The company is currently overseeing the production of large ensemble music of the rock/pop group Radiohead
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
.
In 2005, Curnow was given the Distinguished Music Alumnus Award by the West Chester University of Pennsylvania
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
West Chester University of Pennsylvania is a public university located in West Chester, Pennsylvania, about miles west of Philadelphia. It is one of the 14 state universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education . West Chester was ranked 69th in the Master's Universities ...
School of Music. Curnow has donated almost $60,000 worth of musical compositions, CDs and books to the School of Music Jazz Studies Area.
Teaching and Education career
Curnow is a strong advocate of Jazz educationJazz Education
- Non-academic :* ca. 1890: Jenkins Orphanage Bands. The Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins established an orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina.* 1890s: Alpha Cottage School An orphanage in Kingston, Jamaica offering a music programme....
and has been very involved since being a part of the well known Stan Kenton Band Clinics
Stan Kenton Band Clinics
Stan Kenton Band Clinics were summer programs founded by Stan Kenton in 1959. Kenton conceived the idea out of concern that education of jazz and all its forms were not reaching teenagers who showed signs of interest in it...
when first associated with the group in 1963. As well as holding academic positions at universities, he has served as a guest conductor and educational clinician for groups and organizations throughout the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. He has served as a guest artist, adjudicator, conductor, or clinician at colleges and jazz festivals over the past 30 years throughout the world. Numerous students Curnow have worked with have gone onto have very successful music careers such as Danny House, Phil Feather, Luis Bonilla
Luis Bonilla
Luis Bonilla is an American Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin jazz trombonist born in Los Angeles, California of Costa Rican descent. He is a Grammy Award- winning performer, composer, and Music Professor, about whom the New York Times has described as the artist who "explodes the usual musical structures...
, Charlie Richard, Jack Cooper
The Chamber Wind Music of Jack Cooper
The Chamber Wind Music of Jack Cooper is the first classical/new music studio recording featuring numerous performing artists recording chamber wind music of the composer on the Centaur Records label.- Music :- Background :...
, John Hollenbeck
John Hollenbeck
John Hollenbeck is a jazz drummer and composer from New York City, USA.He also has interests in klezmer, classical music, and other musical forms. He is linked to free jazz and avant garde forms of jazz....
, Christopher Hollyday, Geoff Keezer
Geoff Keezer
Geoffrey Keezer, born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA on November 20, 1970, is a jazz pianist. Born into a musical family, with both parents teaching music, he began studying piano at the age of three. In 1989, at the age of 18, after completing his first year at the Berklee College of Music,...
, Don Braden
Don Braden
Don Braden is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Braden was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He began playing tenor sax at age 13 and started playing professionally at 15. As a high schooler he played in the McDonald's All-American High School Jazz Band...
, Wycliffe Gordon
Wycliffe Gordon
Wycliffe Gordon is a jazz trombonist. He also plays didgeridoo, trumpet, tuba, piano and sings.In 1995, he re-orchestrated the theme song for NPR's All Things Considered...
, Greg Gisbert
Greg Gisbert
Gregory Lyle Gisbert is an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.- Early years and school :Gisbert played drums with his father as a child. He moved with his family to Denver in 1971...
, Loran McClung, Tony Kadlick, John Bailey, Javon Jackson
Javon Jackson
Javon Jackson is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He played in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1987 until Blakey's death in 1990, and has also played with the Harper Brothers, Benny Green, Freddie Hubbard and Elvin Jones...
, John Medeski
John Medeski
Anthony John Medeski is an American jazz keyboards player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of New York's 1990s avant-garde jazz scene and is known popularly as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood...
, Neal Finn, and Delfaeyo Marsalis.
Select discography (partial)
- 1963 Artistry in Voices and Brass Stan Kenton (Capitol Records) - as performer
- 1972 National Anthems of the World Stan Kenton (Creative World Records) - as arranger/conductor/producer
- 1974 Kenton Plays Chicago Stan Kenton (Creative World Records) - as composer/arranger/conductor/producer
- 1976 Journey To Capricorn Stan Kenton (Creative World Records) - as producer
- 1984 Coast to CoastCoast to Coast (McDonald's Jazz Band LP)Coast to Coast is a 1984 album released by McDonald's All-American High School Jazz Band under the direction of Bob Curnow. The group was formed in 1981 as a part of the McDonald's All-American High School Band program that had started back in the late 1960s to feature talented, up and coming...
The McDonald's All-American High School Jazz Band - as producer/composer/arranger/conductor - 1986 We're Back!We're Back! (CSULA album)We're Back! is a 1986 album released by the California State University, Los Angeles Jazz Ensemble, it was the springboard for the Bob Curnow's arrangement of the Pat Metheny's work The First Circle. The group proved to be one of the finest college jazz orchestras of that era with having placed...
Cal State L.A. Jazz Ensemble (CSULA 886) - as arranger - 1992 Dick Shearer and His Stan Kenton Spirits Dick Shearer (Americatone Records) - as composer/arranger
- 1994 The Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays The Bob Curnow L.A. Big Band (MAMA Records) - as composer/arranger/conductor
- 2003 Towednack Bob Curnow and the SWR Band (CK Records) - as composer/arranger/conductor
- 2003 Big Band Reflections of Cole PorterBig Band Reflections of Cole PorterBig Band Reflections of Cole Porter is the first album by the Jazz Orchestra of the Delta and features trumpeter Marvin Stamm and vocalist , this was released in June 2003 on the Summit Records jazz label. The CD has been extensively reviewed across the United States and the U.K...
Jazz Orchestra of the DeltaJazz Orchestra of the DeltaThe Jazz Orchestra of The Delta is a 17 piece concert jazz orchestra based primarily out of Memphis, Tennessee. The group was founded in 1998 and had their first CD release in 2003, "Big Band Reflections of Cole Porter" on Summit Records featuring vocalist and jazz trumpeter Marvin Stamm which ...
(Summit RecordsSummit RecordsSummit Records, Inc. is an internationally distributed record label that evolved out of the dynamic large brass ensemble, Summit Brass in the late 1980s...
) - liner notes