Aardvark Jazz Orchestra is an eclectic big band founded in 1973 by bandleader

Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....

 and trumpeter Mark Harvey. The orchestra plays music from across the jazz tradition with specialties in Ellingtonia and the original postmodern compositions of music director Mark Harvey. The group has won various awards, including one for Best JazzSong at the 2000 Independent Music Awards

The Independent Music Awards

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 ("Scamology"), and has released at least eight albums since 1993.http://web.mit.edu/mharvey/www/BBB/index2.htm

Rhythm

• Richard Nelson - Guitar
• John Funkhouser - Bass, Piano
• Jerry Edwards - Bass, Vocal
• Harry Wellott - Drums

Discography

• Aardvark Steps Out (1993, [Nine Winds Records])
• Paintings for Jazz Orchestra (1995, [Leo Lab])
• An Aardvark Christmas (1997, Nine Winds Records)
• Psalms & Elegies (1997, Leo Records
  Leo Records
  Leo Records is an English jazz record label, which releases Russian jazz in addition to material from American and British musicians.Leo Records was founded in 1979 by Leo Feigin , a Russian immigrant to Britain...
  
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• The Seeker (2000, Leo)
• Duke Ellington/Sacred Music
  Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts
  In the last decade of his life, Duke Ellington wrote three Sacred Concerts:* 1965 - A Concert of Sacred Music* 1968 - Second Sacred Concert* 1973 - Third Sacred Concert...
  
  (2003, [Aardmuse])
• Bethlehem Counterpoint (2003, Aardmuse)
• Trumpet Madness (2005, Leo)
• No Walls/A Christmas Concert (2007, Aardmuse)

External links

• http://www.rebeloweb.com/aardvark_jazz_orchestra/