Artist: Rob McConnell
Album: The Rob McConnell Sextet: Old Friends / New Music
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 42:13
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 413 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Rob McConnell – Ray’s Idea (Remastered 2023) (06:40)
1-2. Rob McConnell – There’s Been Too Many Changes (Remastered 2023) (06:37)
1-3. Rob McConnell – Pannonica (Remastered 2023) (04:36)
1-4. Rob McConnell – Greenhouse (Remastered 2023) (04:59)
1-5. Rob McConnell – Friends Again (Remastered 2023) (03:22)
1-6. Rob McConnell – All The Best (Remastered 2023) (04:00)
1-7. Rob McConnell – Simple Samba (Remastered 2023) (05:54)
1-8. Rob McConnell – Countless Blues (Remastered 2023) (06:01)

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Rob McConnell learned to play the valve trombone in high school and began his career as a professional musician in the early 1950s in Canadian dance bands with Don Thompson, Bobby Gimby, and later in Maynard Ferguson’s big band. From 1965 he played in the formation Nimmons’n’Nine Plus Six of the arranger and clarinetist Phil Nimmons. In 1968, he formed his big band The Boss Brass, with which he worked throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including with the vocal group The Singers Unlimited (1979).McConnell formed the band from Toronto studio musicians. The instrumentation of the 16-piece big band included trumpets, trombones, French horns, a rhythm section, but had no saxophones. It was not until 1970 that McConnell introduced a saxophone section and expanded the band to 22 members. Over the years, Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass evolved into one of Canada’s most popular jazz ensembles, recording a number of albums for Concord Jazz and other labels. Members included Ed Bickert, Moe Koffman and Ludwig Nuss. In 1986, the big band recorded a Concord album with Mel Tormé.

In 1988, McConnell accepted a teaching position at the Dick Grove School of Music in California, but returned to Canada just one year later. In 1997 McConnell was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame[1]; in 1998 he received the Officer of the Order of Canada award.