| Unforgettable | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | the Fullerton College Jazz Band |
| Cover: | Unforgettable CD cover FCJE.jpg |
| Released: | 1985 |
| Recorded: | Fullerton College Fullerton, California |
| Genre: | Jazz, Big band, vocal, instrumental |
| Length: | 48:43 |
| Label: | Discovery Records Trend AM-PM label |
| Producer: | Albert Marx |
| Prev Title: | Primarily Jazz |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | Love Ya |
| Next Year: | 1986/1988 |
| Misc: | cat. # Trend AM-PM Records AM-15 |
Unforgettable[1] is a CD released by the Fullerton College Jazz Bands and Jazz Singers for the Discovery Records Trend AM-PM label. The current #1 jazz band on this recording was the winner of the 1985 International Association for Jazz Education Disneyworld Competition and the opening band for the 1985 Playboy Jazz Festival.[2]
In 1981 the Music Department at Fullerton College built a 16 track in house recording facility which was to serve as a teaching tool for both student music groups and students wanting to take recording technology classes at a vocational level. Unforgettable is the fourth of many albums to come out of this studio to feature the award-winning Fullerton College Jazz Band. The CD contains tracks from three of the Fullerton College jazz groups: Jazz Band I, Jazz Band II, Vocal Jazz. The recording also includes Fullerton College Jazz Band I on 3 tracks from the 1982 LP release Escape To Asylum that were re-mastered for digital release. This same year the Fullerton College Jazz Band won the Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival in May and was the Hennessey Jazz Search winner being given the honor of playing at the Playboy Jazz Festival in June.[3] [4] Albert Marx, who was the owner of Discovery Records/Trend Records AM-PM label, became very impressed with the band two years earlier and the level of the music coming from the jazz groups at Fullerton College.[5] He decided to support the younger, up and coming jazz students/players from the greater Los Angeles/Southern California region by producing certain LPs and CDs. Jazz critic Leonard Feather did the liner notes for the CD booklet of Unforgettable, "...I can only offer my congratulations on a job superbly done. In a word Unforgettable."
"...(Fullerton College) deserve(s) an A for effort on their UNFORGETTABLE album. Everything is done very well, and the arranging, especially, shows that a lot of care went into this recording..."
Bob Rusch, Cadence Magazine[6]