Jazz Articles

Bud Brisbois: Rocket Man

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2001

Jazz Journal International, one of the several overseas magazines to which I subscribe, carries a fairly regular column entitled “The Forgotten Ones,” wherein are biographical sketches of musicians who were celebrated in their day but have long since been consigned to the back roads of history. They’ve not yet profiled the late Bud Brisbois, but they could. Brisbois, a contemporary of upper–register monarch Maynard Ferguson, matched Maynard high–note for high–note in his prime, which lasted from the late ’50s until ...

Emerald City Jazz Orchestra: Alive and Swingin'

by Dave Nathan
April 1, 2001

The Emerald City Jazz Orchestra is made up of solid jazz personages from the Seattle area's large and active jazz community. The Orchestra's maiden album is made highly listenable by fresh and innovative arrangements. Among the songs that stand out are a medium tempo “It's only a Paper Moon" with a Count Basie like piano by Reuel Lubag leading the way, alternately interrupted with measures from blaring brass and softer reeds. This arrangement is characteristic of the imaginative book put ...

Bud Brisbois: "Rocket Man" - In Memoray of Bud Brisbois 193-78

by Dave Nathan
April 1, 2001

Bud Brisbois is known for the time he spends in the higher ranges of the trumpet. He was with Stan Kenton Band during the late 1950's and early 60's, playing with one of Kenton's better aggregations. It's his trumpet one hears screeching on such classic Kenton recordings as “The Peanut Vendor". Brisbois also had a long relationship with Henry Mancini and is the horn on Mancini's “Peter Gunn" which is included on this album.

This memorial album compiles previously unreleased ...