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Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill: Una Noche Inolvidable
by Jack Bowers
It's never easy to replace a legend, especially when the legend happens also to be one's father. But Arturo O'Farrill, who doesn't want for courage or self-reliance, has seized the reins once held by his illustrious parent, the late Chico O'Farrill, and ridden the thoroughbred Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra into the winner's circle in the first-ever live ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song
by Jack Bowers
Jane Ira Bloom is one of those musicians I'd known about by reputation but hadn't actually heard. Now, having listened at last to her most recent album, Like Silver, Like Song, I am somewhat at a loss as to what to say about it. Even though well-played--let there be no doubt about that--it is clearly on ...
Terry Gibbs: Findin' the Groove
by Jack Bowers
Terry Gibbs, who has been Findin' the Groove for more than sixty years and continues to home in on it at the post-retirement age of 81 (82 on October 13), shares the front line with master flutist Hubert Laws on his latest album, which, in typical Gibbs fashion, swings relentlessly in a bop-centered groove from first ...
The Ben-Oni Orchestra: Inner City Sounds Of The Ben-Oni Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
As one can see from the playlist on this bare-bones recording by the Ben-Oni Orchestra, the California-based ensemble is essentially a repertory band whose focal point is the music of Ellington, Basie, Fletcher Henderson and other Swing Era icons. Half of the ten selections were written by Ellington and/or Billy Strayhorn, another one ("Things Ain't What ...
National Youth Jazz Orchestra: London Pride
by Jack Bowers
As Great Britain's superb National Youth Jazz Orchestra is now a mature forty years old, it seems appropriate that it should honor the city of its birth, even though director Bill Ashton writes that London Pride was occasioned not by the orchestra's inexorable advance toward middle age, but rather by London's having won the right last ...
The Jazz Project Big Band: Thanks for the Memories: The Music of Ken Downing
by Jack Bowers
As the San Diego-based Jazz Project Big Band has chosen to devote an entire album to the music of Ken Downing, one might reasonably ask who Ken Downing is. (I know I did.) The short answer is that Downing, who died of cancer in 1983 at age 55, was an Oklahoman, born and educated in Tulsa, ...
The Christian Jacob Trio: Contradictions
by Jack Bowers
As readers should know by now, I have deep admiration for pianist Christian Jacob, whose praises I have sung whenever the opportunity arose. He is, simply put, one of the finest jazz pianists on the scene, and those who've not heard him play have missed a thoroughly pleasurable experience. On Contradictions, Jacob salutes another marvelous pianist, ...
Maynard Ferguson: Gonna Fly Now
by Jack Bowers
On Thursday morning, as Betty and I finished packing for our second trip to the Prescott, Arizona, Jazz Summit (more about that later), the e-mails started to arrive. The first was a rumor; the second confirmed the unwelcome news. Maynard Ferguson, a trumpeter whose breathtaking virtuosity, especially in the higher register, epitomized the word incredible, had ...
Greg Abate Quintet: Monsters in the Night
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Greg Abate is one of a host of talented players who are largely overlooked by the jazz media and thus remain unknown to many fans of the music because they have chosen to stay close to home rather than move to Chicago, Los Angeles or the Big Apple to enhance their stature. Abate, a professional ...
Jump City Jazz Orchestra: Night and Day
by Jack Bowers
I know nothing about the Pennsylvania-based Jump City Jazz Orchestra except the obvious: this is an ensemble whose mission is to entertain, created in the image and following the lead of the storied dance bands of the Swing Era--Miller, Goodman, the Dorsey brothers, Harry James, Charlie Barnet, Ray Anthony and other kindred souls. The question thus ...
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