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A Big Band Jazz Classics "Makeover"

WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Bob Craig
Published November 17, 2012 at 6:17 PM EST

Join us this Sunday when some of your favorite Big Band Classics get a "makeover" by some of the present-day bands. The Diva Jazz Orchestra gets to re-do "String Of Pearls," and Ron Carter's Big Band provides a whole new arrangement of Tommy Dorsey's "Opus One." Sunday, November 18th, 7 to 8 pm.

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Bob Craig
Bob joined WRTI's on-air staff in 2005. His well-rounded radio career began in 1963 as a studio engineer at WBZ in Boston. Throughout the '70s, he was an announcer and programmer at Hartford's WDRC and Boston's WHDH.
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