Doug Meeuwsen

Unexpected Guests

By Ira B. Liss

Label: Tall Man
Released: 2025
Track listing: Renaissance Woman; I��m Counting on You; San Joaquin; Knock on Wood; Extraordinary Woman; Violinspiration; Tapped Out; Reeds Between the Lines; Pineapple Mango; Strings in the Wind; French Fries.

Ira B. Liss: Unexpected Guests

by Jack Bowers
September 12, 2025

Unexpected Guests is the seventh recording by Ira B. Liss' southern California-based Big Band Jazz Machine since Liss formed the ensemble in 1979. His guests on this radiant and high-energy studio date are “unexpected" in more ways than one, as only one of their 11 names can be found anywhere on the album aside from the ...