Wulfie’s Wax Museum: Presenting Thad Jones–Mel Lewis & “The Jazz Orchestra”

Tonight on “Wulfie’s Wax Museum,” we take a listen to “Presenting Thad Jones–Mel Lewis & ‘The Jazz Orchestra’,” the Village Vanguard’s Monday night band’s debut studio recording, from May 1966. This LP was recorded just three months after the group’s opening night performance in February 1966. This recording is from the “Solid State” record label. The band claimed to have achieved sonic excellence by recording “exclusively with transistorized equipment on twenty-eight channels.”  Join host Michael Wulfsohn tonight, Monday, December 18 at 8pm on the “Night Beat” on KUVO Jazz.