Jazz Articles about Bob Rockwell

Jasper Lundgaard / Bob Rockwell / Doug Raney / Henrik Gunde, Aage Tanggaard: Love & Peace: The Music of Harold Parlan

by Chris Mosey
September 11, 2013

Maybe it was the mournful sound of the foghorns belonging to the ships passing below the Great Belt Bridge. Or the music he'd just been listening to, and featured on this album. But Harold Parlan's thoughts strayed from the care home where he now lives in the small Danish coastal town of Korsør (pop. 14,501) to Rudy Van Gelder's studio at Englewood Cliffs on the New Jersey shoreline. “It was like recording in someone's living room," he ...

Bob Rockwell Quartet: Bob's Ben

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 5, 2006

Bob's Ben è il disco del risveglio. Basta il caldo abbraccio di un sax tenore per ricordarci la figura imponente (in tutti i sensi) di un musicista che, cappello e sax, un'aria triste e solitaria, tanto alcol nelle vene, ha segnato la storia di uno strumento. E non solo. Come “Big Ben", Bob Rockwell è americano di nascita, ma danese di adozione. Come Ben, Bob pensa che la fredda Copenaghen sia il centro dell'universo; sia l'unica città che possa prima ...

The Bob Rockwell 5: Bob's Wilder

by Jack Bowers
December 14, 2004

Here's another album to file under “p" for “pleasant surprises." Bob Rockwell, an American saxophonist who traveled to Denmark as a young man and has lived there ever since (which may explain the omission of his name in both the New Grove Dictionary and Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz ), is a persuasive modernist on tenor or soprano who surveys the music of composer Alec Wilder on this splendidly recorded and invariably charming studio session.

Besides the leader, the Rockwell 5 ...