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Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge: The Comet's Tail: Performing the Compositions of Michael Brecker
by Larry Taylor
What better way to commemorate Michael Brecker than with a CD by a hard-driving big band playing his compositions. Brecker, the great tenor saxophonist died in 2007. His music and talent will be long remembered, and Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge have put together a wonderful selection of arrangements, starring some of today's best of ...
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...
Brett Favre Isn't The Only Comeback Kid
by Jack Bowers
The ink was barely dry on last month's report that trumpeter Rob Parton had decided to break up his superlative Chicago-based JazzTech Big Band after more than twenty years at the helm before Parton was back with a brand new ensemble, one whose purpose, he says, “is to mirror that of the European Radio Orchestras where ...
Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge Set to Release "The Comet's Tail: Playing the Compositions of Michael Brecker" on August 11
Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail: Playing The Compositions of Michael BreckerSet for August 11 Release on MAMA RecordsWith performances by Randy Brecker, Danny Gottlieb, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Mike Mainieri, Adam Nussbaum, Mike Stern and Rob ThomasMAMA Records is proud to announce Chuck Owen & ...
The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra: The Best is Yet to Come
by Barbara Salter Nelson
For many people, the bonds forged at college serve as the foundation for lifelong friendships; bonds that often keep like- minded friends committing to get together once in awhile to share passions. The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra (JCO) was created along these lines, but instead of getting together for the occasional game of golf or ...
Here We Are
By Chuck Owen
Label: MAMA Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: E Ticket; Study Score;
My Foolish Heart;
Duets;
Off Flow;
Red Beans and Ricely Yours, Part 1: Struttin’;
Red Beans and Ricely Yours, Part 2: A Gate’s Gate.
Madcap
By Chuck Owen
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Madcap*+; Tarwathi+; Beautiful Love+; I Don't Hear Nothin'+; Magic Light*; But Beautiful
Chuck Owen and the Jazs Surge: Madcap
by Dave Nathan
Chuck Owen has gathered his Florida based Jazz Surge big band together for their first release in more than five years. What comes out is a progressive big band playing at its finest. Although the charts have a modern sound to them, they still are within the realm of mainstream jazz. This group is not George ...
Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: Madcap
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen’s Florida–based Jazz Surge charts an adventurous course on its second album for Sea Breeze Records, and while it doesn’t always strike the target it does so often enough to keep one’s mind from wandering too far from the action. The Surge, some of whose members are students or faculty members at the University of ...
