Ulysses Owens, Jr. With The New Century Big Band at Dizzy's Club

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Drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. leads the New Century Big Band’s debut at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. This new, unrecorded group is an expansion of the acclaimed New Century Jazz Quintet, a small group featuring five of the best rising star musicians from New York City and Japan: Ulysses Owens, Jr., Tim Green, Benny Benack III, Takeshi Ohbayashi, and Yasushi Nakamura. The big band features: saxophonists Tim Green, Lakecia Benjamin, Daniel Dickinson, Michael Thomas, and Carl Maraghi; trombonists Michael Dease, Tom “Bones" Malone, Nicholas Lee, and Wyatt Forhan; trumpeters Benny Benack III, Frank Green, Marcus Parsley, and Alphonso Horne; pianist Takeshi Ohbayashi; bassist Yasushi Nakamura; drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr.; and vocalists Shenel Johns and Charles Turner