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60th GRAMMY Awards: Jazz List
31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo (For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.) “Can't Remember Why" by Sara Caswell Track ...
Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: Whispers on the Wind
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen's Florida-based and Grammy-nominated Jazz Surge is back in the saddle with another series of impressive musical portraits, Whispers on the Wind, whose genesis harkens back to Owen's childhood in windy Omaha, NE, and whose inspiration derives in part from the works of three contemporary authors: Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King (the last, ...
International Jazz Composers' Symposium - May 18-20 at University Of South Florida - School Of Music in Tampa
Featuring: Billy Childs (and his Quartet) John Hollenbeck (with the Claudia Quintet) Christine Jensen Chuck Owen (with his Jazz Surge) Rufus Reid Maria Schneider Ryan Truesdell Special Appearances by: Randy Brecker Gregoire Maret Vision Talks by Music Industry ...
Registration Now Open For ISJAC Symposium - May 18-20, 2017
2017 International Jazz Composers Symposium at the University of South Florida May 18-20, 2017 REGISTRATION FOR THE SYMPOSIUM NOW OPEN! TAKES PLACE MAY 18-20, 2017 Time is running out, so register now. Submission deadline is October 27th! The Mission of the International Society of Jazz Arrangers ...
UNT Two O'Clock Lab Band: Two Music: It Don't Mean a Thing, If It...
by Jack Bowers
As has been pointed out a number of times before, there's no audible difference between the University of North Texas' One O'Clock and Two O'Clock Lab Bands, which are customarily named for rehearsal times but based on performance alone could well be designated One O'Clock and One-Fifteen. This is not meant to devalue the One O'Clock ...
Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: River Runs
By Chuck Owen
Label: MAMA Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Prologue: Dawn at the River’s Edge; Movement 1: Bound Away; Movement 2: Dark Waters, Slow Waters; Movement 3: Chutes and Wave Trains; Movement 4: Side Hikes–A Ridge Away; Movement 5: Perhaps the Better Claim.
Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: River Runs
by Jack Bowers
On this powerful and ambitious “concerto for jazz guitar, saxophone and orchestra," composer Chuck Owen's Jazz Surge is bolstered by a thirty-four member reed, brass and string section that helps guide the listener on a picturesque journey along a number of rivers of various shapes, sizes and currents whose aim is to rekindle through musical portraiture ...
Composer/Bandleader Chuck Owen Reflects the Clarity and Thrill of Nature on Latest Album, River Runs, Available April 9 on MAMA Records
Combines Long-Running Big Band, The Jazz Surge, with Full Orchestra “An incredibly colorful portrait, you can feel the power and majesty of these natural settings. Excellent music!” —Dave Liebman “A tour de force in contemporary orchestral composition... This exquisitely produced recording defies classification.” —Rufus Reid “Beautiful. Beautiful. Jazz has never sounded better.” —Bob Belden “‘'River Runs' ...
Phil Woods / Stan Kenton / The Les Hooper Band
by Jack Bowers
Phil Woods / DePaul University Jazz Ensemble Solitude Jazzed Media 2010 Not to underplay the title, but Solitude, from alto saxophone master Phil Woods and the splendid DePaul University Jazz Ensemble, embodies far more than the sort of serenity it implies. In fact, Woods is as animated and ...
Glenn Cashman / UAB SuperJazz / Elliot Deutsch Big Band / Russ Spiegel Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Glenn Cashman And the Southland Big Band! Primrose Lane Music 2009 Even though Glenn Cashman's superlative Southland Big Band makes its home (technically) south of the Mason-Dixon Line, it is more than a few miles removed from cotton fields, mint juleps and the Mississippi River--to be more precise, in the ...
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