Album Review: Royalty from Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra
Album: Royalty Artist: Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra Label: T2 Music Release Date: August 7, 2026 Artist Website: https://www.springfieldsym.org/ssjo Label Website: https://t2-music.com/ Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) is a performing and recording big band based in Springfield, Ohio and established in 2019. Founded by Springfield native Todd Stoll, a trumpeter, educator, and Vice President of Education at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, SSJO attracts musicians from across Ohio and neighboring states. The bond that holds them is a shared commitment to uphold traditional big band idioms and its stylistic language. Its members crossover three generations that include professional musicians, educators, and emerging artists whose diverse backgrounds contribute vastly to the collaborations on their new release Royalty. Multiple motifs are layered and crisscrossed along Duke Ellington's tune "Second L...