Jazz Articles about Bill Dowling

About Bill Dowling

Album Review

"Not Like This" from the Horn Engine team is somewhat of a textural departure from their more intense, funk and Jerry Hey Horns-oriented earlier fare. Composed by the late Grammy-winner Jeremy Lubbock for Al Jarreau, the song has been covered by artists as wide-ranging as vocalists Helen Merrill, and Mark Murphy, and brass men Til Bronner and Jim Rotondi. The Horn Engine team stays devoted to the original 1980s Jarreau recording. However, the embellishments render the effort ...

Album Review

Heat and Horn Engine: (Put Your) Trust in Love

Read "(Put Your) Trust in Love" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
August 21, 2023

"(Put Your) Trust in Love" from Heat (a multi-artist recording source created in 1979 and led by Tom Saviano) and trumpeter Bill Dowling's “Horn Engine" is a throwback to the recordings of great male vocalists such as Al Jarreau, Luther Vandross, and George Benson. It is a stellar effort. Rhythmically, the track falls into a hip, R+B double-time feel and hooks deep. Co-composers Bill Dowling, late of a national tour of “Tootsie," and multi-instrumentalist, Tom Saviano, former ...