Jazz Articles about Steve Spiegl

About Steve Spiegl

Album Review

The Steve Spiegl Big Band: The L.A. Sessions at Capitol Studios

Read "The L.A. Sessions at Capitol Studios" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 19, 2020

Almost every Monday morning for the past fifty years, composer-arranger Steve Spiegl convened his Los Angeles-based big band for a rehearsal session, assembling, for most of that time, at the Musicians Union in Hollywood and, more recently, at its new home in Burbank. When Spiegl decided in 2019 to pull up stakes and move northward to Oregon, which meant bidding a melancholy goodbye to the band and its weekly rehearsals, it marked the end of an era—but not without one ...

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Album Review

The Steve Spiegl Big Band: Enigma

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2001

Steve Spiegl is a thoughtful — and thought–provoking — big–band composer / arranger / leader with a modus operandi all his own. There aren’t many who can draw on the works of such diverse composers as J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Alexander Scriabin and Sir Edward Elgar to fashion Jazz compositions that are not only accessible but also swing. Spiegl does that and more on his third album, Enigma, whose title is taken from Elgar’s Enigma Variation No. 9, a sumptuous ...