Jazz Articles about Steven Hennig

About Steven Hennig

Album Review

Yuma Jazz Company: A Night Such As This

Read "A Night Such As This" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 29, 2021

Spurning a global pandemic and daytime temperatures hot enough to fry an egg, the dauntless Yuma Jazz Company remains steadfastly open for business. That's Yuma as in Yuma, Arizona, a city of roughly 100,00 hardy souls tucked into the southwestern corner of the state, midway between Phoenix and San Diego, touted online as “the Gateway to the Great Southwest." Also home for almost twenty years to the Yuma Jazz Company whose sixth recording, A Night Such as This, has the ...

Album Review

Yuma Jazz Company: Intuition

Read "Intuition" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 5, 2015

Intuition is the fourth album by the Yuma Jazz Company, a well-groomed post-bop quintet that has been gigging in southwestern Arizona since it was formed around a dozen years ago. As one would expect from a group whose home base lies a few miles from the Mexican border, the Latin influence is strong, especially on “Late Night Taco Stand," “Cozy Samba" and “(She Is) Everything Plus," all of which were written and arranged by trumpeter Steven Hennig. ...