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Stockton Helbing: For Nothing Is Secret
by Jack Bowers
Stockton Helbing has had quite an education. After graduating from the University of North Texas, where he studied with Ed Soph and was a member of the school's renowned One O'Clock Lab Band, the young drummer completed almost four years of “post-graduate work with trumpeter Maynard Ferguson's dynamic tentet, Big Bop Nouveau, for which he also ...
Mace Francis Orchestra: Live
by Jack Bowers
Having already released two studio albums, the Mace Francis Orchestra from faraway Perth, Australia, goes live this time with a sturdy concert session taped in November, 2006 at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club in Melbourne during a tour of the country's eastern provinces. Even though less than three years old, the MFO shows considerable promise, as Francis ...
Oscar and Song: Here's to the "Losers"
by Jack Bowers
As Betty and I listened last month to a program of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, Ferde Grofé and others presented by the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, I thought to myself that American popular music--I'm talkin' Tin Pan Alley, folks, not the dreck that passes for “popular these days--has to be ...
Frank Tiberi: 4 Brothers 7
by Jack Bowers
This is a clever idea, and a scary one as well. Clever because it seeks to recreate the innovative “four brothers sound (three tenor saxophones, one baritone) made famous by Woody Herman's legendary Second Herd; scary because whoever undertakes the assignment has some enormous shoes to fill (Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff). Happily ...
Hy Perbole's Astonishingly Incomparable Superstars: Platinum-Plated Gold
by Jack Bowers
Confirming long-whispered rumors of its existence, a mint-condition master tape of what almost everyone this side of uncharted Borneo agrees is absolutely, positively and beyond any doubt the most breathtakingly spectacular jazz recording ever made, Platinum-Plated Gold by Hy Perbole's Astonishingly Incomparable Superstars, has been found lying under rotting carcasses at a meat-packing plant and former ...
Ten Part Invention: Live at Wangaratta
by Jack Bowers
"Bittersweet, according to Webster, is anything that is “pleasant yet painful. And that is an apt description of Live at Wangaratta,, taped at the Jazz Festival bearing that name by the east Australian ensemble Ten Part Invention during a concert on the last day of October, 1999. All of the music for the occasion was written ...
Anat Cohen: Poetica
by Jack Bowers
This is a wonderfully recorded session, overflowing with tender, charming melodies, and everyone involved is a world-class musician. On the other hand, it's not exactly jazz: more like chamber music, bordering at times on classical and not too many steps removed from the venerable klezmer tradition. There is improvisation, but it flows so easily from the ...
Octobop: Very Early
by Jack Bowers
I received a copy of Octobop's fourth CD, Very Early, very late--well past its actual release date--but better late than never, as saxophonist Geoff Roach's urbane northern California-based ensemble does its usual splendid job of reawakening and perpetuating the cool sounds of West Coast Jazz from the '50s, '60s and beyond. This time, the octet has ...
Frank Foster and the Loud Minority Big Band: Well Water
by Jack Bowers
Thirty years ago, saxophonist Frank Foster and drummer Elvin Jones escorted eighteen other musicians (whom Foster dubbed the Loud Minority Big Band) into a recording studio in New York City to tape an album, Well Water. The hope was that a label would be found and the music released for public consumption. That never happened, and ...
Chie Imaizumi: Unfailing Kindness
by Jack Bowers
Chie Imaizumi Unfailing Kindness Capri Records 2007 Thanks, Greg. Sometimes all it takes to launch a promising career is a chance meeting, in this case between trumpeter Greg Gisbert and young composer/arranger Chie Imaizumi. The two met in March 2005 at the Jazz Standard in NYC, where Gisbert was playing ...
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