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These Are a Few of My Favorite....Charts
by Jack Bowers
Whenever the topic of desert islands arises among jazz fans, the focus is invariably on which albums (discs) one would choose to cram into a suitcase if one were ever stranded on an otherwise barren island. While the consideration of particular arrangements seldom governs the debate, I really think it should. After all, few albums, however ...
Bill Mays: Mays at the Movies
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Bill Mays has spent much of his career as a first-call studio pianist in Hollywood, accompanying singers like Sarah Vaughan and Al Jarreau, and playing on movie soundtracks. Moreover, his most recent CDs have involved his innovative third-stream group, The Inventions Trio, with trumpeter Marvin Stamm and cellist Alisa Horn. As a result, Mays's profile may ...
Bill Mays: Solo and Trio
by Ken Dryden
Bill MaysSolo!s/r2009 Bill MaysAt the MoviesSteeplechase2009 Bill Mays is a veteran artist with an extensive musical resumé, having taken part in all kinds of session work, ranging from movie ...
Bud Shank: Fascinating Rhythms
by Jack Bowers
In the Wild West, when a cowboy passed away while doing his job, whether herding cattle, branding a steer or engaging in a gunfight, the popular saying was that he “died with his boots on." The adage applies as well to renowned alto saxophonist Bud Shank, who recorded what was to be his final album, Fascinating ...
The Four Freshmen: The Four Freshmen and Live Trombones
by Robert J. Robbins
Over six decades ago, four undergraduates at Indiana's Butler University first joined their voices in song as The Four Freshmen and, in 1950, the quartet was heard by Stan Kenton, on whose trombone section the “Frosh" had modeled their sound. Kenton immediately demanded that the group be signed by his label, Capitol, and began an association ...
Sound Check - Jack Cortner & His NY Big Band
By Jack Cortner
Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. Strike Up The Band - George Gershwin 04:44
2. Speak Low - Kurt Weill 05:24
3. Sometime Ago - Sergio Mihanovich 05:18
4. Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock 05:43
5. Sound Check - Jack Cortner 04:55
6. Yesterdays - Jerome Kern 06:34
7. Caravan - Juan Tizol 05:17
8. Cinema Paradiso Love Theme - Andrea Morricone 05:11
9. A La Mode - Jack Cortner 04:35
10. You and the Night and the Music - Dietz/Scwartz 05:22
11. It's All Right With Me - Cole Porter 06:09
Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands
by Jack Bowers
The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...
Jed Levy: One Night At The Kitano
by George Kanzler
Some live jazz albums transport the listener. If you shut your eyes, you can picture the dim lights of the candles on the tables, the clinking sound of ice cubes falling into glass tumblers... you might even find yourself looking around for someone to take your drink order. One Night at The Kitano makes you feel ...
Jack Cortner: Sound Check
by Robert J. Robbins
Back in 2007, veteran composer/arranger Jack Cortner (a longtime ghost for the late arranger and orchestrator Billy Byers) released Fast Track, his illustrious debut as a bandleader for the Jazzed Media label, with ex-Kenton and Herman trumpeter Marvin Stamm and his erstwhile sidekick, pianist Bill Mays, as the principal soloists. With Sound Check, Cortner, Stamm, and ...
Jack Cortner Big Band / Peter Hand Big Band / Chicago Jazz Philharmonic
by Jack Bowers
Jack Cortner Big Band Sound Check Jazzed Media 2009 For someone who waited so long before taking his first swings as leader of his own big band, Jack Cortner shows again on Sound Check, the band's second impressive recording in as many years, that he's got game. He's ...
