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Hakan Brostrom: New Places
by Jack Bowers
The New Places to which Swedish composer/arranger Håkan Broström takes us are sunny and pleasant, teeming with scenic avenues and charming byways. At the center are his charismatic charts and evocative alto (or soprano) saxophone, twin beacons that gladden and safeguard the listener on a consistently agreeable and rewarding journey. It's an impressive debut for Broström, ...
Sonny Rollins: Sonny, Please
by Jack Bowers
Am I alone in believing that Sonny Rollins, now in his 76th year, may have lost a step or two? Don't read me wrong; the man can still tame the tenor saxophone, let there be no doubt about that. But I fear he may have become a sort of untouchable icon, akin, for example, to Miles ...
Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Countermove
by Jack Bowers
The Brussels Jazz Orchestra, which has welcomed in the past such eminent composer/arrangers as Bill Holman, Maria Schneider, Kenny Werner and Phil Woods, and has played the music of noted Belgians Bert Joris and Michel Herr, turns for a second time on this new album to works by its talented artistic director/lead alto saxophonist, Frank Vaganée, ...
Pierce College Jazz Ensemble: Suiteness
by Jack Bowers
The name of this superlative album by the Pierce College Jazz Ensemble, clearly a play on words, refers to the fact that the ensemble has chosen to perform four suites for orchestra, one of which became a jazz classic in its primary incarnation, a second whose three components are familiar but not as a suite, and ...
Mike Barone Big Band: Metropole
by Jack Bowers
In 1968, composer/arranger/trombonist Mike Barone recorded a hair-raising big-band album, Live at Donte's, then paused for 37 years before producing its spectacular sequel, Live 2005! Now, hard on the heels of that admirable endeavor, comes another masterwork from Barone, Metropole, recorded live last March at LA Valley College in Valley Glen, California. To be fair, Barone ...
hr Bigband: Once in a Lifetime
by Jack Bowers
It's not often--perhaps only Once in a Lifetime--that a big band, from Germany no less, has a chance to record with not one but two of the jazz world's acknowledged master craftsmen, organist Joey DeFrancesco and drummer Jeff Hamilton. The hr Bigband from Frankfurt seized that chance in December '03, and the result is this spectacular ...
Doug MacDonald: Gentle Rain
by Jack Bowers
The long tradition of the mellow jazz guitar established by Barney Kessel, Johnny Smith, Herb Ellis, Billy Bauer, Jim Hall and others, and carried forward by Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Ed Bickert, Howard Alden and their peers, remains in the capable hands of (relatively) younger players such as John Pizzarelli, Chris Flory and Joe ...
Flags of Our Fathers: Various Artists
by Jack Bowers
I don't ordinarily review film scores, but the patriotic epic Flags of Our Fathers, about the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima and the memorable photograph that changed the mood and momentum of World War II, has a jazz/swing pedigree of sorts with music by jazz aficionado Clint Eastwood, orchestrations by conductor Lennie Niehaus, ...
Shenandoah University Conservatory Jazz Ensemble: Lullaby of the Leaves
by Jack Bowers
The Shenandoah University Conservatory Jazz Ensemble, which makes its home in the heart of Virginia's picturesque Shenandoah Valley, continues on its upward path under director Joe Eckert, late of the US Air Force Airmen of Note, with the second in a series of yearly albums whose purpose is to affirm and underscore the ensemble's forward progress. ...
Erwin Lehn Orchestra: Let 'Em Swing!
by Jack Bowers
Let 'Em Swing! surveys the early years (1951-65) of bandleader/vibraphonist Erwin Lehn's groundbreaking Südfunk-Tanzorchester, which continues today as the world-class SWR Big Band. Lehn led the band for forty years until his retirement at the end of 1991. The orchestra then became known as the SDR Big Band, and later the SWR. Lehn's entire career as ...
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