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The latest recording of UCF\u2019s Flying Horse Big Band is Good News!<\/em><\/p>\n

Really, that\u2019s the name of the album \u2013 Good News!<\/em> \u2013 and it has been in the top 50 on the three major jazz charts since it was released in July, even spending some time at No. 1 on the Roots Music Report\u2019s chart. The band\u2019s sixth album under Professor Jeff Rupert is charting higher than recordings by Van Morrison, Mike LeDonne and other notables.<\/p>\n

The success of the band, made up of students in the university\u2019s jazz studies program, is simple. \u201cWe work at promoting good music and artistic endeavors,\u201d says Rupert, a tenor saxophonist.<\/p>\n

Selections on the album include the works of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Antonio Carlos Jobim and others. The Good News!<\/em> title comes from one of the songs on the album, which was composed by one of Rupert\u2019s former teachers 30 years ago, Bob Mintzer.<\/p>\n

This is the band\u2019s first recording collaboration with the UCF Studio Orchestra, which joins on several songs. Other collaborations on the album are with The Jazz Professors (Rupert, Per Danielsson, Richard Drexler, Bobby Koelble and Marty Morell), and guest vocalist Jeff \u201cT-Bone\u201d Gerard.<\/p>\n

Rupert, director of UCF\u2019s jazz studies, also is conductor of the Florida Symphony Youth Jazz Orchestra and founder of Flying Horse Records.<\/p>\n

All sales from the album benefit the jazz studies program. CDs are available from UCF’s Performing Arts Box Office<\/a> and CDBaby, digital downloads are available at retailers, and the album is available on streaming platforms.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s previous album, The Bat Swings! <\/em>(2018), hit the top three national jazz airplay charts, reaching No. 1 on both the Roots Music Report and the North American College and Community Radio chart, as well as No. 29 on JazzWeek.<\/p>\n

The band also will have an album of Ray Charles songs coming out in January. Rupert has spent some time in New York producing the vocal component of the album.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we have the top writers and musicians collaborating with the band,\u201d Rupert says. \u201cIt\u2019s a great time at UCF.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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