Jazz Articles about Edward Partyka

About Edward Partyka

Album Review

Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra: Hits!*, Vol. 1

Read "Hits!*, Vol. 1" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 31, 2014

There's actually an asterisk after the title of the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra's latest album, Hits! Vol. 1 In small print, at the bottom left-hand side of the jacket, are the words “except track 8." As Partyka explains in the liner notes, much of the album is comprised of “a cross section of the music that has generated the most enthusiastic response" from audiences, and thus the orchestra's “hits." The exception is track 8, “Hair of the Dog," a staple ...

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Album Review

Bob Brookmeyer with the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra: Madly Loving You

Read "Madly Loving You" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2001

Kansas City–bred valve trombone master Bob Brookmeyer is top–billed on this handsomely conceived and superbly performed album because it was a gift from Ed Partyka’s Jazz Orchestra and a number of prominent composer / arrangers to Brookmeyer on his seventieth birthday in December 1999. Partyka, a Chicagoan who has lived since 1990 in Cologne, Germany, had taken part in Brookmeyer’s Jazz Composers’ Workshops in Cologne, was deeply influenced by them and sought to repay the debt by producing a big–band ...