Recordings

The newest CD from the Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra is Who Sez You Can’t Dance to Bebop. Officially released in October of last year, Who Sez You Can’t Dance to Bebop features ten original compositions from Minnesotan composers, many of whom perform regularly with the orchestra.

Our recordings can be ordered directly from us, with payment through PayPal. A Time of Reckoning is available at CD Baby or on iTunes.

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An Odd Christmas
An Odd Christmas Cover Art
Sound sample: Watch Out

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All Tracks
  1. Watch Out
  2. Christmas Time is Here
  3. Prayer
  4. Two Scandahoovian Carols
  5. Wassalling
  6. Winter’s Muse
  7. An Odd Christmas (Part One)
  8. An Odd Christmas (Part Two)
  9. Winter Wonderland
  10. Joyful Joyful
  11. Drummer Boy
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In a Lucid Moment
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Sound sample: JT

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All Tracks
  1. In a Lucid Moment
  2. JT
  3. Edge
  4. En Otro Mindo
  5. Sweka Mombossanova
  6. While You Were Out
  7. Split Rock
  8. The Quiet One
  9. Scurry On
  10. Arcturis
  11. A Fine Day for It
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Hard Room
Hard Room Cover Art
Sound sample: Alexander’s Rhythm

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All Tracks
  1. Playing to a Hard Room
  2. Pasta
  3. Sallydance
  4. Luminous Horizons
  5. Alexanders Rhythm
  6. Fez Up!
  7. A Couple of Horns Short of a Dilemma
  8. Rob not Bob
  9. Los Vientos Cubanos
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Ireland
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Sound sample: Not Bob

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All Tracks
  1. Ireland
  2. New Shoes
  3. Simply
  4. Good Manners
  5. Blues in X
  6. Spanker
  7. Poem Katherine
  8. Purpleheart
  9. Not Bob
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Bold Move
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Sound sample: Tanga

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All Tracks
  1. Tanga
  2. Rahn Deaux
  3. If I Should Lose You
  4. A Bold Move
  5. Angela
  6. S.E.A. Blues
  7. Autumn Leaves
  8. Shorted
  9. Moments Notice
  10. A Day at a Time
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In Walked Wendy
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Sound sample: In Walked Wendy

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All Tracks
  1. In Walked Wendy
  2. Teka
  3. Fats Navarro Rides Again
  4. Cessa Dolor
  5. The Things We Did
  6. Socha to Me
  7. Nizmek
  8. Sparkys Blues
  9. Love Always Happens
  10. Change at Jamaica
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A Time of Reckoning
A Time of Reckoning Cover Art
Sound sample: A Tribute to Francy Boland

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All Tracks
  1. Tribute To Francy Boland (Ahern)
  2. A Time Of Reckoning (Cavanagh)
  3. W 7th (Ahern)
  4. Copperhead (Byers)
  5. Feets (Peterson)
  6. North Star (Devich)
  7. Granicus (Peterson)
  8. Gozar (Cavanagh)
  9. Grumbalambasamba (Peterson)
  10. A Dream Of Hungarian Lanterns (Stinson)
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Who Sez You Can’t Dance to Bebop
Who Sez You Can't Dance to Bebop Cover Art
All Tracks
  1. Who Sez You Cant Dance to Bebop? (Bailas BeBop?), Kari Musil (8:23)
  2. Expedition, Greg Stinson (5:46)
  3. Thats How I Know, Paul Peterson (4:30)
  4. To The Source, Bob Byers (3:59)
  5. Meresque, John Guari (5:49)
  6. Having Built in Deeper Water, Dan Cavanagh (8:07)
  7. The Reincarnation of Queen Irene, Kari Musil (8:05)
  8. Ruyas Dream, Greg Stinson (6:25)
  9. Chasin the Dolphin, Bob Byers (6:25)
  10. Expecting Tom Boogie, John Ahern (9:00)
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