Front Burner (The Rodger Fox Big Band) (LP 2417 - 2418)

The Rodger Fox Big Band  Time Piece (Vinyl, Ode Records, 1978) ****  

The Rodger Fox Band and Midge Marsden  Let The Good Times Roll (Vinyl, Circular Records, 1985) ****  

Genre: Jazz, NZ music

Places I remember: Real Groovy Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Front Burner (sadly, neither songs are on Spotify or YouTube)

Gear costume: One Night Affair

Active compensatory factors: I remember seeing Rodger Fox's big band at a music festival a few years after this album came out. That blast of sound is a great memory.

This is an excellent sampler of Fox's various passions - big band (Open Sesame), jazz rock (One Night Affair), and jazz fusion (Time Piece).

The second album is a collaboration with NZ blues exponent Midge Marsden. It's excellent. A bit more cohesive than Time Piece, but still featuring Rodger on trombone fronting a big band (four trumpets, three saxes among the crowd).

Where do they all belong? Check out The 1860 Band entry.