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Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra: Alkebulan
by Jack Bowers
On Alkebulan, the second recording by his Washington, DC-area Jazz Orchestra, composer, arranger and trombonist Javier Nero pays loving tribute to his African heritage, as he did on the orchestra's earlier album for Outside In Music, emet (The Black Land). As before, Nero uses his considerable skills as a writer and orchestrator to share and amplify ...
Kate Olson: So It Goes
by Jack Bowers
There are times when an album slips completely off the rails so abruptly and forcefully that it tarnishes what has come before it as well as what is to follow. Such is the case with Seatte-based saxophonist and composer Kate Olson's album, So It Goes, which is humming briskly along, free from perplexity or discord, until ...
Chris Fagan: Fortune Telling
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Chris Fagan traveled well south of the equator--in fact, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2025--to record Fortune Telling, his first album as a leader in almost 30 years. Fagan also changed horns, from alto saxophone on that earlier recording (Signs of Life) to tenor while adding clarinet to the mix (and at times, thanks ...
Ricky Alexander: Ragology
by Jack Bowers
Ragtime takes its name from the ragged rhythmic patterns created by syncopated melodies played against a regular, steady bass line. The result is a lively and energetic sound that predates traditional jazz and swing. Among ragtime's foremost exponents was Scott Joplin, whose music was reintroduced to the public in 1973 via Paul Newman and Robert Redford's ...
Dave Slonaker Big Band: Shifty Paradigms
by Jack Bowers
While Los Angeles-based composer and arranger Dave Slonaker's paradigms may be shifty, his all-star big band is about as forthright as one could wish. On Shifty Paradigms, his third recording fronting the band, Slonaker guides his peerless eighteen-member ensemble through its paces on a dynamic and always-swinging program that encompasses seven of his stellar original compositions ...
Vance Thompson: Lost and Found
by Jack Bowers
For several years, Vance Thompson's career as a musician hung in the balance. Owing to a neurological disorder known as Focal Dystonia, the Grammy-nominated trumpeter and founder of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra was literally unable to blow his own horn. But unlike other people who may have thrown in the towel or called it a day, ...
Joe Magnarelli: Decidedly so
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter Joe Magnarelli has been a bright light on the New York-area jazz scene for four decades, since arriving in the city in 1986 from his native Syracuse, NY. On Decidedly So, his eighteenth recording and third for Cellar Music, Magnarelli ushers a top-drawer quintet through its paces in a pleasing session that encompasses a trio ...
Patricio Morales: La Tierra Canta
by Jack Bowers
While rhythm is definitely king on La Tierra Canta ("The Earth Sings"), the fifth recording by Chilean-born composer, arranger and classical guitarist Patricio Morales, it must share the throne with various handsome and radiant melodic and harmonic designs employed by Morales and his international septet. If Morales' name is unfamiliar, that could be because he has ...
Negative Press Project + Friction Quartet: Cycles 1
by Jack Bowers
Cycles 1, the fifth recording by the San Francisco Bay-area Negative Press Project, is chamber jazz of the highest order, neatly canvassing a dozen creative and colorful themes by the group's co-leaders, pianist Ruthie Dineen (nine) and bassist Andrew Lion (three). The octet is ably supported on every number by the Friction Quartet, whose elegant strings ...
Dave Mossing: Homesteaders
by Jack Bowers
On his debut album, Homesteaders, Montreal-based trumpeter Dave Mossing pays homage to the intrepid immigrants (including some of his forebears) who trekked westward in the early 1900s to help develop the area around his birthplace in Regina, Saskatchewan. He and his quartet do so in the form of a largely unhurried eight-movement Homesteader Suite (plus three ...
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