Jazz Articles about The DePaul University Jazz Ensemble

The DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Live at the Jazz Showcase

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 2001

I hear a lot these days about how college students are being taught Jazz–by–the–numbers instead of how to think and react creatively in an extemporaneous situation, but I simply can’t buy into that line of reasoning, especially when listening to a group of young musicians as sharp and audacious as those in director Bob Lark’s Chicago–based DePaul University Jazz Ensemble who show clearly on Live at the Jazz Showcase that they’d give any big band, college or pro, a pulse–pounding ...