Jazz Articles about Jim Manley

Jim Manley: Alter Ego

by Jack Bowers
July 13, 2005

Jim Manley is an impressive trumpeter (and pianist), as he proved on an earlier album, Splendor in the Brass, and his sidemen are no doubt talented musicians as well, but what they have conspired to produce on Alter Ego is surely aimed at a generation younger than my own, people who grew up listening to MTV, rock, “alternative bands, and all manner of electronic gadgetry, not to mention smooth jazz.

Whenever I see the term “programming next to a musician's ...

Jim Manley: Splendor in the Brass

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2002

When Jim Manley was in high school his band director and fellow trumpeter, Ed Levinsky, introduced him via records to many of the Jazz world's leading players including one who made an indelible impression that hasn't yet been erased. Manley was blown away by high""note maestro Maynard Ferguson and decided that was the road he wanted to travel. Now, some thirty years later, Manley has assembled a semi""big band (five trumpets, two trombones and rhythm but only two saxophones) to ...