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Big Bands: Another Bumper Crop
by Jack Bowers
With the end of the year peeking demurely over the horizon, it's a good time to glance over one's shoulder and concede that 2007 has yielded yet another bumper crop of big-band recordings. Yes, I am as puzzled as you are as to why this should be. After all, big bands, as we are told repeatedly, ...
Don Rader Quintet: Odyssey
by Jack Bowers
While listening recently to the album Voyage (SWR, 2006) by Don Menza with Germany's SWR Big Band, my ear was drawn to a marvelous flugelhorn solo on the ballad “Where Are You?" I glanced at the tray to see who was playing. It was Don Rader--and it was no surprise. Rader is one of those remarkably ...
Dallas' Original Jazz Orchestra: Messin' with Texas
by Jack Bowers
Not every idea is as rewarding in practice as it is in theory. Here's one that is. The plan was to have Dallas' Original Jazz Orchestra record an album of music written about or otherwise associated with the state of Texas, and the result is Messin' with Texas, a warm and snappy salute to the Lone ...
Pete Christlieb with the Lori Mechem Quartet: Live at the Jazz Cave
by Jack Bowers
I fell head-over-heels in love with the tenor saxophone the first time I heard Zoot Sims play one, and my heart (thank goodness) has never quite recovered from the impact. These days I have two tenors of choice, one on each coast--Eric Alexander in the east, Pete Christlieb way out west. And the strange part is, ...
The Jim Widner Big Band: Out of This World
by Jack Bowers
Bassist Jim Widner, who set the bar incredibly high on his earlier albums as leader of the Jim Widner Big Band (there have been four), clears it handily again on Out of This World, whose name graphically underscores the ensemble's impressive strength and solidarity as well as the album's abundance of superlative charts and hair-raising solos. ...
Mike Barone Big Band: By Request
by Jack Bowers
As there is scarcely a clue anywhere on By Request as to who may have asked for these songs, it's fun to presume (whether true or not) that the album's title denotes bandleader Mike Barone's tongue-in-cheek response to those bemused inebriates who, legend has it, sometimes stagger up to bandstands shouting, “Play 'Melancholy Baby'! Indeed, “My ...
Lee Konitz, Maynard Ferguson, New England Jazz Ensemble
by Jack Bowers
Lee Konitz / Ohad Talmor Big Band Portology OmniTone 2007 Saxophonist Lee Konitz turned eighty years young on October 13, and what better way to flip the bird to Father Time than by producing a year-long series of dynamic new recordings with his nonet, string project and the Ohad Talmor ...
The Marvin Stamm Quartet: Alone Together
by Jack Bowers
Alone Together is not only another splendid album by trumpeter Marvin Stamm's quartet (does he ever produce anything less?), it also comes with a bonus--a DVD whose playing sequence duplicates the CD and allows one to see and hear Stamm, pianist Bill Mays, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Ed Soph as they study one another, alertly ...
Eric Alexander: Temple of Olympic Zeus
by Jack Bowers
According to the (incomplete) discography at his website, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, not yet forty years old, has already recorded more than seventy albums as a sideman, and nearly twenty as leader. He must stand outside recording studios in the morning waiting for the doors to open! To say that Alexander's perseverance ...
The Carl Saunders Exploration: The Lost Bill Holman Charts
by Jack Bowers
The Bill Holman charts unearthed here by the Carl Saunders Exploration weren't so much “lost as overlooked--hidden away for some two decades in a closet at the home of geologist/saxophonist Ted Richardson in Houston, Texas. On the other hand, as none of them had ever been recorded, they may accurately be described as “found. The charts ...
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