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Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band: Dizzy's Business
by Jack Bowers
Concert-goers at Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen's Guild last September-October chanced upon the best of all possible worlds--terrific charts by Ernie Wilkins, Slide Hampton, Dennis Mackrel and Jimmy Heath, marvelously played by the accurately named Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band. If you aren't among those lucky enough to have been there, your luck has taken a turn for ...
University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One: Destination Unknown
by Jack Bowers
This is the fourteenth album in my library by the University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One--and the fourth under director Chris Merz, who succeeded the legendary Bob Washut nearly five years ago. As always, the repertoire is eclectic, touching a number of bases from Ellington/Strayhorn, Fletcher Henderson and Cole Porter to Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter ...
Northeastern State University Jazz Ensemble: Appointment in Milano
by Jack Bowers
Another commendable album of straight-ahead big band jazz courtesy of Jazz Ensemble 1 at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, this time with special guest Bobby Watson, a superb alto saxophonist who supervises the Jazz Studies program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Unlike its earlier studio date, Hour of the Pearl, director Arthur White's ensemble ...
Frank Rosolino: The Last Recording
by Jack Bowers
Trombonist Frank Rosolino, as brilliant musically as he was troubled personally, led this studio date on August 1, 1978, roughly four months before he took his own life--as well as that of one of his two sons--and seriously wounded the other. Whatever demons haunted Rosolino, they were never visible when he was playing; what came out ...
Arizona Jazz Academy Ellington Band: Jazz Around the World
by Jack Bowers
High school students? No way! Then again, these aren't just any high school students--they're the cream of the jazz crop in Tucson, Arizona. They've survived auditions to become members of the four-year-old Arizona Jazz Academy and worked their way up through the Academy's ranks to become members of its eighth and best large ensemble, the impressive ...
Jimmy Simmons and Friends: Red, White and You: Homecoming 2005
by Jack Bowers
In case the name doesn't ring a bell, Jimmy Simmons is the president of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas--a university president who doubles on saxophone, clarinet and piano! No kidding. His friends at this Homecoming 2005 concert (and studio recording) include the Lamar University Alumni Jazz Ensemble under director Wayne Dyess and a number of invited ...
Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Is Back
by Jack Bowers
No, the Count isn't literally back... in fact, he's never really been away, as the Count Basie Orchestra has kept rolling along under a series of leaders since Basie's death in April 1984. This latest incarnation, directed by the Count's longtime bass trombonist Bill Hughes, was recorded in concert in October '05 at Denryoku Hall in ...
The AZ Jazz Academy: Onward And Upward
by Jack Bowers
The Arizona Jazz Academy, a meeting place for some two hundred aspiring jazz musicians of high school and middle school age, is modestly housed on the third and upper floor of the First Baptist Church Educational Building at the corner of 5th Street and 6th Avenue in downtown Tucson. After climbing two flights of stairs and ...
The Taylor / Fidyk Big Band: Live at Blues Alley
by Jack Bowers
Here's a second impressive album by the outstanding Taylor/Fidyk Big Band, in every respect a worthy successor to its superlative studio date, A Perfect Match, from three years ago. The same basic ingredients--exhilarating charts by co-leader Mark Taylor, inspired blowing by the ensemble--are amplified this time around by the adrenaline rush induced by the presence of ...
Valley Jazz Orchestra: Free Food?
by Jack Bowers
It's unusual, to say the least, to encounter a big band album whose opening five-movement suite is dedicated to a local park. But such is the case with Free Food?, on which the Pennsylvania-based Valley Jazz Orchestra pays its respects with “Village Green, in Blue," a musical portrait of Bellefonte's Talleyrand Park written and arranged by ...
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