Jazz Articles

Capital University Jazz Ensemble: Spectrum

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

This is an amiable, easy–grooving session by five gentlemen who make their living teaching young people the fundamentals of Jazz. They’ve learned those fundamentals well, and put them to productive use in a varied mainstream program that won’t set any worlds afire but breezes nicely along from start to finish with enterprising work by all hands. All of the tunes were written by members of the quintet — five by guitarist Smith, one by saxophonist Cox, and two modest gems ...