Jazz Articles about Dan Buegeleisen

Dan Buegeleisen and the Carma Big Band: West Coast Alternative

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2001

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 ...