Bob Curnow

Bob Curnow & the SWR Big Band: Towednack

by Jack Bowers
August 2, 2002

After hearing Bob Curnow's wonderful Celtic-inspired big-band composition, “Towednack," introduced at a convention of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) several years ago in Anaheim, CA, I hurried to the Sierra Music Publications booth in the exhibition hall (where I knew I'd find him) to applaud the composer. “Absolutely brilliant!" I gushed, or words to that effect. “You simply have to record that someday."

And now here it is, sounding as radiant as I remembered it, on a marvelous ...