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Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by Jack Bowers
If you are fond of lovely music, and are able to look beyond categories and labels to unmask its allure, chances are you'll fall head-over-heels in love with Sky Blue, composer/arranger Maria Schneider's sixth album and third for ArtistShare. Having studied with Bob Brookmeyer and the late Gil Evans, and strived earlier in her career to ...
Mel Martin / Benny Carter Quintet: Just Friends
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Mel Martin, the lesser known half of this clever musical equation, first met the legendary Benny Carter in 1987 and played alongside him for the first time three years later. This quintet date, recorded live at Yoshi's nightclub in Oakland in April 1994, as Carter was nearing his eighty-seventh birthday, shows why he was able ...
Jazz Festival At A Distance
by Jack Bowers
The second annual New Mexico Jazz Festival has come and gone, and I blush to admit that I was totally uninvolved. This year's headliner was saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and as I've never been a big fan, I decided not to attend either of his performances, at the Lensic Theatre in Santa Fe and the Kiva Auditorium ...
The Bob Florence Limited Edition: Eternal Licks and Grooves
by Jack Bowers
In a world of unrestrained hyperbole, where competent athletes are superstars and slim, attractive women supermodels, words like awesome, spectacular, phenomenal, superlative and breathtaking are too often over-used and undeserved. But not in this case. On Eternal Licks and Grooves, the Bob Florence Limited Edition is awesome, its soloists spectacular, guest artists Carl Saunders, Scott Whitfield ...
Chuck Mangione: Friends and Love
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Mangione Friends and Love Gates Music 2007 In the decade 1970-80 composer/arranger/trumpeter Chuck Mangione was hotter than a four-alarm fire, drawing large audiences to his concerts and producing two Grammy Award-winning albums that combined elements of Jazz, pop, New Age and even classical music in performances with ...
Ryan Haines Big Band: People & Places
by Jack Bowers
When one considers the touchstones in his or her life, few are more enduring or important than People & Places. Appreciating this, trombonist Ryan Haines has devoted an entire album to some of the people and places that have meant the most to him and helped shape his identity as a musician and a human being. ...
The Tony Faulkner Jazz Orchestra: Thad Jones and the Ellington Effect
by Jack Bowers
What an intriguing idea. Thad Jones and the Ellington Effect is based on a Master's dissertation completed some years ago in which composer/arranger Tony Faulkner argued that Duke Ellington was a major influence on Thad Jones “in his development of Ellington's innovative procedures as well as in his reliance on the abilities of the musicians in ...
Chris Dean's Syd Lawrence Orchestra: Re:generation
by Jack Bowers
Great Britain has always had a fairly large number of active big bands but no more than a handful have stood the test of time, retaining their popularity and audience as musical tastes and listening habits evolved, or as some might argue, declined. For years, the Ted Heath Orchestra was far and away the country's gold ...
Sentimental Journey Orchestra: On the Bandstand
by Jack Bowers
Sometimes the name says it all. The Atlanta-based Sentimental Journey Orchestra plays music from the Big Band Era in a pleasant, danceable style. It wouldn't have been out of place On the Bandstand, when big bands held sway throughout the land more than half a century ago. As it is, the SJO has been on the ...
N. Glenn Davis Quartet: A Different View
by Jack Bowers
Some drummers have a tendency, whether deliberate or involuntary, when leading an ensemble to turn the spotlight on themselves. Not Glenn Davis, who lets his splendid compositional skills and purposeful timekeeping speak for themselves on A Different View, on which he leads a crew of fellow Clevelanders in an enticing session of buoyant post-bop Jazz. Pianist ...
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