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Dan Buegeleisen and the Carma Big Band: West Coast Alternative
by Jack Bowers
After a promising start, this studio date by trumpeter Dan Buegeleisen and the San Francisco–based CARMA Big Band loses momentum while backing vocalist Kitty Margolis (“My Shining Hour,” “It Never Entered My Mind”), labors for more than ten minutes through the album’s yawn–producing showpiece, “Goodbye and Forever Miles” (which should have been recognized as the “weakest link” and voted off the playlist as such) and, quite simply, never fully recovers. Besides “Miles,” Buegeleisen wrote half a dozen other tunes (all ...
read moreDan Buegeleisen and the Carma Big Band: West Coast Alternative
by Jack Bowers
After a promising start, this studio date by trumpeter Dan Buegeleisen and the San Francisco–based CARMA Big Band loses momentum while backing vocalist Kitty Margolis (“My Shining Hour,” “It Never Entered My Mind”), labors for more than ten minutes through the album’s yawn–producing showpiece, “Goodbye and Forever Miles” (which should have been recognized as the “weakest link” and voted off the playlist as such) and, quite simply, never fully recovers. Besides “Miles,” Buegeleisen wrote half a dozen other tunes (all ...
read morePaul McKee: Gallery
by Jack Bowers
The first time I heard Paul McKee he was sharing the stage with trombone master Carl Fontana — and, much to everyone’s surpise, more than holding his own in such fast company. Sparks flew that evening several years ago, as they often do on Gallery, McKee’s long–overdue debut as leader, wherein he is reunited with Fontana (on two selections) and abetted on others by such well–respected players as saxophonist Tim Ries and trumpeters Bobby Shew and Ron Stout. Although lesser ...
read moreScott Hall Quartet: Strength in Numbers
by Jack Bowers
There’s an abundance of talented young Jazz musicians on the scene today, far more than the traffic can bear, and chances are that only a handful will ever become well–known and/or wealthy. Scott Hall, who’s never been one to sit around and simply let things happen, knows well the odds against musical success, especially in a niche market whose appeal to the masses will always be minimal. So instead of relying on talent alone — he has plenty, by the ...
read moreBob Lark: First Steps
by Jack Bowers
Most Jazz educators are enterprising players in their own right, and many have an understandable urge to plunge into the far–flung ocean of performance and splash around from time to time. Trumpeter Bob Lark, whose day gig is coordinator of Jazz Studies at Chicago’s DePaul University (and whose resumé includes a doctorate in Jazz performance from the University of North Texas), gets his feet wet with First Steps, on which his capable shipmates include the highly regarded tenor saxophonist Bob ...
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