Jazz Articles about Steve Wiest

About Steve Wiest

Album Review

Steve Wiest And Phröntrange: The High Road

Read "The High Road" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 8, 2016

You don't encounter a lot of trombone-centric fusion dates these days. But then again, you also don't encounter too many musicians like Steve Wiest, the unabashedly enthusiastic veteran trombonist fronting this project. He's a true polymath, respected as a performer, educator, science fiction author, cartoonist, and composer-arranger. But he also clearly knows how to let rip and have a good time. That much is made clear on this powerful date. The High Road was born out of ...

Album Review

UNT One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2014

by Jack Bowers
January 13, 2015

Another year, another anthology of stellar big-band jazz from the University of North Texas' flagship ensemble, the One O'Clock Lab Band, which carries on a tradition of annual recordings that was begun more than four decades ago. It's a custom that has not only served the university well but has produced a long and unbroken series of splendid large-ensemble albums, and Lab 2014 is clearly no exception to that rule. To declare that Lab 2014 is superior ...