Jazz Articles about Dave Stevens

The Dave Stevens Big Band: Sound Storm

by Jack Bowers
February 19, 2004

This is the first album by Dave Stevens’ surprisingly proficient Pennsylvania-based big band; the hope here is that it won’t be the last. The intention, when the band got together in September ’02 at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA, was to piece together a concise demo for supporters and prospective sponsors within arm’s length of its neighborhood. Thankfully, that plan was scrapped and a full-blown album recorded, as Stevens’ thirteen-year-old ensemble is far too accomplished to be confined to and ...