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We Get Letters . . .
by Jack Bowers
April has brought warmer weather, buds on trees and a lot of rain to Charlotte but not much in the way of big-band news, which affords an opportunity to share with you an interesting response from bassist Terry Douds to my recent review of singer Brienn Perry’s album Live at FitzGerald’s with the Woody Herman Orchestra ...
Weekend of Jazz: A Capital Idea
by Jack Bowers
Last December’s column on the depressing condition of big-band Jazz in this country has drawn a second positive response, this one from Derek Maddox of Beavercreek, OH, a suburb of Dayton, who writes in part: “Like many growing communities we face the challenge of maintaining a quality school system. Some years ago it became apparent that ...
The Future Is Now
by Jack Bowers
Like Meredith Willson’s fictional Professor Harold Hill, Sonny LaRosa is a “music man,” a modern-day pied piper who takes untrained kids and molds them into a community band. Unlike the smooth-talking Professor Hill, however, LaRosa actually knows something about music, having played trumpet since age ten and mastered several other instruments including piano, guitar, trombone, saxophones, ...
The IAJE Crosses the Border
by Jack Bowers
Memories of Toronto . . . After checking in at the Sheraton Hotel on Wednesday afternoon, January 8, several hours before the evening performances that were to open the 30th annual conference of the International Association for Jazz Education (the first ever held outside the continental U.S.), I decided to scope out the area by walking ...
On the Brighter Side . . .
by Jack Bowers
Having surveyed last month the generally deplorable state of Jazz, especially big-band Jazz, here in the Lower Forty-Eight, it's good to be able to usher in the New Year with better news in the form of a response to that column from Randy James who writes in part: “I live in Fort Worth [Texas], which is ...
Season's Groovings
by Jack Bowers
While I can take credit for writing this month's column, credit for the idea itself must be given elsewhere. My wife recently wandered by the computer while I was hard at work on some review or other and asked, “Why don't you write a column for December on big-band music for Christmas?" Which is exactly what ...
