Magic City Jazz Orchestra Lawler, trombonist Charlie Ard, saxophonist Neil McLean, arranger Steve Sample, Sr and pianist Ray Reach. SuperJazz has spawned a number of spin-off groups, such as the Night Flight Big Band and the Magic City Jazz Orchestra. In 1998, Ray Reach, then director of the UAB Jazz Ensemble and founding director of the Magic City Jazz Orchestra, contacted New York saxophonist Lou Marini in order to hire him to be guest artist and clinician for the annual "Weekend of Jazz" festival at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Mr. Marini subsequently came to Birmingham, where he conducted jazz workshops and
Charlie Parker on Dial during Parker's tenure with Dial Records between March 28, 1946, and December 17, 1947, these 89 songs have been released multiple times. In addition to British Spotlite's release in Britain and the United States on vinyl, in the mid 1970s, separately, the collection was published by label Jazz Classics in 1996 as "Complete Charlie Parker on Dial" and by Stash Records in 2004 as "Complete Dial Sessions". (The collection was also released as a limited edition LP box set on Warner Brother Records in 1977, and as a general release two-disc set in 1977.) The producers have, according to jazz