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Robert Bachner Quintet: Traveling Hard
by Jack Bowers
Yes, Austrians also speak the universal language of jazz, and without any discernible accent, as trombonist Robert Bacher and his quintet prove on Traveling Hard, Bachner's second recording as leader of this group. Bachner, a world-class player, composed and arranged each of the album's seven selections, and it would be difficult to find fault with any ...
Samson Trinh: Very Strange Night
by Jack Bowers
Samson Trinh is a composer/arranger/orchestrator / bandleader/musical director/producer/saxophonist with degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and the Manhattan School of Music (where he studied composition with pianist Mike Abene). He was the 2005 winner of the Richmond Jazz Society's Joe Kennedy Jr. Scholarship and has composed for and performed with such luminaries as Al Jarreau, Mulgrew Miller, ...
Dave Umemoto: Farewell, Good Friend
by Jack Bowers
Even as the loveliest rose is destined to wither and die, so the stoutest heart must one day fail. Even so, the news that Dave Umemoto's generous heart had suddenly stopped beating sometime during the evening of January 2-3 came as a shock to his many friends, admirers and fellow jazz enthusiasts in California, across the ...
Columbus Jazz Orchestra: The Colors of Jazz
by Jack Bowers
The Columbus Jazz Orchestra has passed its thirtieth anniversary with no visible sign of slowing down. On the contrary, the ensemble has gained new life and evinces a fresh spirit under artistic director Bryon Stripling, whose genial persona enlivens The Colors of Jazz and makes listening more fun than ever. The sense of merriment is immediately ...
Sliding Hammers: A Beautiful Friendship: Honoring Jay and Kai
by Jack Bowers
The Hammars, Karin and Mimmi Pettersson, are trombonists from Sweden. I don't know where, when or how they learned to play as well as they do, and don't especially care. What matters is that they seem able to do--quite easily--whatever is needed to be done on trombone. Their artistry is remarkable on this marvelous tribute to ...
European Youth Jazz Orchestra: Swinging Europe 2006
by Jack Bowers
European Youth Jazz Orchestra Swinging Europe 2006 Music Mecca 2006 What a great (one is almost tempted to say “civilized") idea: an orchestra composed of young musicians from sixteen European countries (and one from America), touring the Continent for three weeks and presenting a series of concerts under ...
Jennifer Hall: Jennifer Hall Meets... A West Coast Tribute to Gerry Mulligan
by Jack Bowers
I've heard a number of tributes to the late great Gerry Mulligan, none warmer or more persuasive than this. Jennifer Hall, a superb baritone saxophonist whose abiding respect for Mulligan is evident in every note she plays, has assembled an all-star group of West Coast musicians for a heartfelt remembrance that scans eleven of Mulligan's memorable ...
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral: Echoes
by Jack Bowers
In the annals of jazz vocal duos, none stands taller than Jackie Cain and her husband, the late Roy Kral. When it came to interpreting American popular songs they were without peer, and like Bobby Short or Matt Dennis, every note, every measure, every phrase was urbane and tasteful. Echoes, on which Cain and Kral radiate ...
Fred Stride Jazz Orchestra: Forward Motion
by Jack Bowers
It takes a lot of self-confidence, not to mention talent, to compose a four-part Concerto for Jazz Orchestra that strives to paint a musical picture of certain kinds of machinery, but that is what Fred Stride has ventured to do on Forward Motion, the second half of which is devoted to Machina, a four-part suite commissioned ...
Dick Johnson: Star Dust & Beyond
by Jack Bowers
In 1983, when the “new Artie Shaw Orchestra was formed (Shaw had been out of the music business for nearly three decades), Boston-based clarinetist Dick Johnson was chosen to lead the band, which he has done to this day. After Shaw died in December of 2004, Johnson decided to record a tribute to his long-time friend ...
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