| Sixth Floor Jazz | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | the University of Texas Jazz Orchestra |
| Cover: | Sixth Floor Jazz CD cover.jpg |
| Released: | 1997 |
| Recorded: | The University of Texas, Bates Recital Hall Austin, Texas |
| Genre: | Jazz, big band, instrumental |
| Length: | 57:06 |
| Label: | UTJO |
| Producer: | Rick Lawn |
| Prev Title: | Loose Ends |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Once in a Blue Moon |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
| Misc: | cat. #004 |
Sixth Floor Jazz[1] is a 1997 CD release by the University of Texas Jazz Orchestra; it was critically acclaimed by All About Jazz.[2] The recording also features Gunther Schuller conducting and giving commentary to historic works of Duke Ellington and Charlie Barnet during a live concert in 1995. The CD is unique in featuring Enhanced CD audio and QuickTime video with credits and pictures for the recording sessions.
This group that comprised the University of Texas Jazz Orchestra (during this time) is noted as one of the top collegiate jazz orchestras in the country having been invited to play at the 1997 International Association for Jazz Education Convention in Chicago.[3] The group heard on this recording also played and recorded with Charlie Haden and Gunther Schuller and performed the commission Ten Gallon Shuffle composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi. Several members of the group have moved into teaching positions at major universities[4] around the country and others are now established jazz artists.[5]
"...Sixth Floor Jazz redeems the promise shown in that earlier scrapbook...A first–class session by an upwardly mobile university–level Jazz ensemble..."
Jack Bowers, All About Jazz