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The Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, “Mazel Tov Kocktail!”

The Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, founded by Ira B. Liss in 1979, celebrates its 40th anniversary with Mazel Tov Kocktail!, a collection of big band numbers old and new, out today, February 15. Six arrangers contributed to the project and three of its tracks were written by multi-instrumentalist Dan Radlauer, the band’s composer-in-residence. One of these three tracks is the fittingly celebratory, klezmer-based title track with Radlauer on accordion and April Leslie on clarinet.