Jazz Articles about Bud Shank

Bud Shank and Phil Woods: Bouncin' With Bud & Phil: Live at Yoshi's

by Dan McClenaghan
July 2, 2005

Bouncin' With Bud and Phil features a front line of two veteran alto saxophonists, Bud Shank and Phil Woods, in a freewheeling, sometimes thoughtful, often elegant wailing live session. Both are septuagenarians, and the set sounds less like a sparring session--a younger man's game--than a lively conversation, full of spirited give and take, a swapping of informed ideas, and embellishments and expansions of each others' statements, rather than a game of musical one-upmanship.Phil Woods has long been a ...

Bud Shank & Bob Cooper: Mosaic Select 10: Bud Shank & Bob Cooper

by C. Andrew Hovan
August 8, 2004

One is no longer with us and the other still serves as a vital bop-inflected saxophonist, but for a short period of time in the late '50s, Bob Cooper and Bud Shank joined forces with producer Richard Bock on a series of fine Pacific Jazz sessions that, while not widely known even at the time, will get some much needed exposure due to a new compilation presented by Mosaic. The two had spent time together in the bands of Stan ...

A Fireside Chat With Bud Shank

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2003

Is Bud Shank West Coast cool jazz? Providing you know what the hell 'cool jazz' is (and I don't), I find everything that Shank plays to be cool. Shank's alto is hip, but alas, I have a hidden agenda. I am campaigning here and now to convince Shank to play the flute once more. Shank has, as you will find below ' and if you know and follow his career and records ' since put down the flute to concentrate ...

Bud Shank Sextet: Silver Storm

by Todd S. Jenkins
January 1, 2001

I doubt anyone could have come up with a more suitable title for an album than this. Six veteran gray foxes of West Coast jazz, with a collective 300 years of experience, blow clean through an incendiary set that sharply belies the “cool” image with which they’ve come to be associated.

Unlike so many aging jazz legends, Bud Shank and friends keep improving with age. Longtime fans of Shank may have noted the abrupt change in his approach to jazz ...

David Friesen, Clark Terry, Bud Shank: Three To Get Ready

by Jim Santella
September 1, 2000

Recorded February 24, 1994 in East Berlin, this session, before a large audience in an auditorium, brings together three melody makers with no chording instrument or drum set. David Friesen provides a walking bass pattern, while the trio creates obvious harmony as they work together. But this unusual instrumentation provides a setting that is far removed from soloing in front of the Count Basie, Duke Ellington, or Stan Kenton orchestra.

These are favorite songs, too. Clark Terry and Bud Shank ...

Bud Shank: The Complete Pacific Jazz Bud Shank Studio Sessions

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 1, 1999

The problem with examining the music that emanated from the west coast during the '50s and '60s was that too often much of it was lumped under the generic and grand category of “West Coast Cool." Sure, there was music that fit that bill, but there was also traditional jazz prospering on the west coast (Lu Watters & Bob Scobey) along with examples of the avant-garde (Earl Anderza & Jimmy Giuffre), big band (Gerald Wilson), funk/soul (Groove Holmes & Charles ...

Bud Shank-Bob Cooper / Bob Brookmeyer: Blowin' Country / Traditionalism Revisited

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 1998

If ever a series lived up to its promise and its name, this one surely does. These two discs are part of a set of reissues on Pacific Jazz labeled West Coast Classics — which indeed they are. Also among the early releases (not reviewed here) are memorable sessions by Chet Baker/Russ Freeman, the Jack Montrose Sextet, the Jack Sheldon and Shank/Bill Perkins quintets, and octets led by Perkins and bass trumpeter Cy Touff. So far at least, there’s not ...