Jazz Articles about Bob Lark

Bob Lark and Friends: Suggestions

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2007

If you've not heard of trumpeter Bob Lark, that's probably because he spends much of his time supervising the admirable Jazz Studies program at Chicago's DePaul University. In his spare time, Lark often sits in with some of the Windy City's leading ensembles and has recorded three albums under his own name, including this consistently impressive studio session, his second for the Jazzed Media label.

Unlike In Her Eyes, his quintet date from a 2006, Lark isn't backed on Suggestions ...

Bob Lark / Phil Woods Quintet: In Her Eyes

by Jack Bowers
June 12, 2006

In Her Eyes is the second trumpet-led album released by Jazzed Media on which the name Carl Saunders doesn't appear above the marquee. Graham Carter, the CEO at JM, is careful to choose trumpeters who won't suffer by comparison. The first was Marvin Stamm; this time it's Bob Lark, whose melodic trumpet and flugelhorn sing as beautifully as his name.

Lark, best known to this writer as the longtime director of the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble in Chicago, has chosen ...

The Bob Lark / Phil Woods Quintet: In Her Eyes

by Edward Blanco
June 1, 2006

Dr. Bob Lark has just issued a new prescription for incurable jazz fanatics: full immersion in the music of In Her Eyes. The trumpeter and educator holds a Doctor of Musical Arts and serves as the chair of Jazz Studies at De Paul University in Chicago, where he teaches jazz trumpet and directs the university's Jazz Ensemble. Lark has performed with Clark Terry, Louie Bellson, Bobby Shew, Bob Brookmeyer and Tom Harrell, among others. On this recording he shares the ...

Bob Lark: Until You

by Michael P. Gladstone
April 9, 2006

Until You is the second album from Chicago trumpeter/flugelhornist Bob Lark, who also serves as the Jazz Chair at Chicago's DePaul University, where he directs the school's Jazz Ensemble and teaches trumpet and courses in jazz pedagogy and jazz style. Lark poses on the inside cover in a very Chet Baker-ish photo with his flugelhorn.

Lark displays a very pure and undiluted tone and performs here on flugelhorn on all but the final two selections. There is a ...

Bob Lark: First Steps

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 1998

Most Jazz educators are enterprising players in their own right, and many have an understandable urge to plunge into the far–flung ocean of performance and splash around from time to time. Trumpeter Bob Lark, whose day gig is coordinator of Jazz Studies at Chicago’s DePaul University (and whose resumé includes a doctorate in Jazz performance from the University of North Texas), gets his feet wet with First Steps, on which his capable shipmates include the highly regarded tenor saxophonist Bob ...