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Jim Widner

And the Beat Goes On

By Jim Widner

Label: Chase Music Group
Released: 2013
Track listing: Begin the Beguine; Everytime We Say Goodbye; Pennies from Heaven; Smile; Terrestris; Willow Weep for Me; The Queen of Mean; What a Wonderful World; The Beat Goes On.

Jim Widner Big Band: And the Beat Goes On

by Jack Bowers
October 12, 2013

Bassist Jim Widner formed his band in 1987 to carry on the legacy of summer jazz camps established by bandleader Stan Kenton in the early '60s. Since then the band has added touring and recording to its resume; And the Beat Goes On, the ensemble's sixth CD for the Chase Music Group, was recorded in June ...

Pointing Fingers... And Naming Names

by Jack Bowers
May 4, 2013

As the countdown continues toward the last Big Band Report in June, the time has come to point fingers and name names--in other words, to compile a short list of contemporary jazz musicians who have risen above the norm to help make life more pleasurable for one devoted listener. These are, mind you, personal choices, and ...

Out of This World

By Jim Widner

Label: Chase Music Group
Released: 2007
Track listing: Out of This World; Alone Together; Embrace; You Must Believe in Spring; Time After Time; Horizon Under; When You

The Jim Widner Big Band: Out of This World

by Jack Bowers
November 18, 2007

Bassist Jim Widner, who set the bar incredibly high on his earlier albums as leader of the Jim Widner Big Band (there have been four), clears it handily again on Out of This World, whose name graphically underscores the ensemble's impressive strength and solidarity as well as the album's abundance of superlative charts and hair-raising solos. ...

Flying High...

By Jim Widner

Label: Chase Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: Juba; Urgency; Everything Happens to Me; Emily; Forgotten Dreams; Seven on Charlie; Why Should I Care; Big Pocket; Last Night When We Were Young; Cherokee (65:55).

The Jim Widner Big Band: Flying High...

by Jack Bowers
February 18, 2004

Something was bothering me as I listened to “Juba,” the adrenalizing opening track on the fourth and most recent album by bassist Jim Widner’s world-class big band. It was Phil DeGreg’s piano. Not the comping—Phil’s too capable for that—but the piano itself, unusually clanky and far too prominent in the mix. Rather than chaperoning quietly in ...