Promotional Info
Gee's band is one of the few active touring Big Bands. They are on the small college/community concert hall circuit.
On April 30, the band will be playing at the Pike Performing Arts Center in Indianapolis; it has a four night gig in Arkansas at Hot Springs Village in late November. Gee is also playing in Montreal in July and Western Illinois University in February, as well as a four hall tour in North Carolina in January.
George Gee's ever poplular band is back with its second release - recorded live at the prestigeous Zurich Festival in 2001 in a public concert at Zurich's historic main train station. The virtuosity and swingability of this veteran-packed band was on display that steaming summer evening captured here live. Selections include the rarely heard Duke Ellington's "One Man Dance," Harry James' "Trumpet Blues and Cantible," a Latin masterpiece "Sunny Ray" by Ray Santos, and a cool Curtis-Dixon "Soul Serenade" played, soulfully of course, by Charles Stephens. The CD is dedicated to Frank Foster, whose song "Blues at Frankie's Flat" features veteran Eddie Bert and music director Walt Szymanski.
