Jack Millman - Big Bands Swingin Years: Jack MillmanTrumpet and flugelhorn player Jack Millman was just 17 when he "sat in" with Lionel Hampton and was then invited by Hamp to join the band for a 6 week stint at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. Just before he was drafted in the Army he joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra for a West Coast Road Tour. When he completed his service he came out to form and manage his own jazz groups throughout the 50's that played the West Coast scene extensively.

This Temps d'Arménie is the musical result of close collaborations initiated by the pianist Laurence Mekhitarian with the three Belgian composers Jean-Pierre Deleuze

Originally released on 06/06/06

unique stringed instruments and Will Clipman's ethnic percussion and drums

This technically challenging piano music is wildly rambling

Thwarting the sacrifice (in which the god was nothing more than a Swampie priest in fancy dress)

stompin' rockin' blues

both widowed and in their 70s

The lyrical themes

brims with joy

including early recordings as Bonnie Tutmarc

Critics Choice 2008 (American Record Guide)

and the sound of records skipping on his bedroom turntable