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The Brian Pastor Big Band: Common Men
by Jack Bowers
Yes, I'll admit I'm growing old (the senior discount is now a given), but never too old, I hope, to appreciate a big band that's clearly bursting with energy and enthusiasm and swings like every note may be its last. By the way, that's a thumbnail sketch of trombonist Brian Pastor's Philadelphia-based ensemble and Common Men, ...
Joey Sellers' Jazz Aggregation: El Payaso
by Jack Bowers
In reviewing an album such as El Payaso, it is perhaps best to separate the performance from the music. The performance is quite good; as these dozen gentlemen are first-class musicians from the Big Apple, one would expect no less. As for the music, it is on the whole bright and enterprising, reminiscent of themes by ...
Tennis Balls & WBEZ Balls
by Jack Bowers
Another month has flown by, summer is in full bloom, and I'm in the middle of my annual “Wimbledon break." In spite of its worldwide popularity, soccer's quadrennial World Cup is of no more than passing interest in this household, but everything stops whenever one of the four major tennis tournaments gets under way. ...
The UNCG Jazz Ensemble: Vision
by Jack Bowers
When it comes to jazz studies programs, one might think that the University of North Carolina-Greensboro would be one of the new kids on the block. Not so. Actually, the UNCG program will be forty years old in 2007. What's more, Vision isn't the jazz ensemble's first album; half a dozen others have preceded it, including ...
Kenton Portraits: A Loving Salute
by Jack Bowers
Various Big Bands Kenton Portraits - A Loving Salute Tantara Productions 2006 The word breathtaking is over-used these days, so I must beg your indulgence as I use it to describe Kenton Portraits - A Loving Salute, which is indeed a loving and, yes, often breathtaking salute to one of ...
Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn 2 / The Ballad Style
by Jack Bowers
The two albums on this CD reissue from Vocalion were recorded during trumpeter Maynard Ferguson's “English period (1968-72). It was a time when Ferguson was trying a number of new things, some of which worked, and some of which didn't. The first eight tracks are from MF Horn 2, the others from The Ballad Style of ...
Pecos River Brass: On A Roll
by Jack Bowers
John C. Smith and the Pecos River Brass On Track Self Published 2006 John C. Smith and the Pecos River Brass Wonderful World Self Published 2006
John Hogman: Frozen Dreams
by Jack Bowers
John Högman, who played only baritone sax on his debut as leader (Reduce Speed, Sittel 2004), spreads his wings wider on Frozen Dreams, seeking to evade monotony by mixing things up. Högman not only plays soprano, tenor and baritone but lends a hand on keyboards, rhythm guitar and “rhythm programming. He also varies the size and ...
The Les Brown All-Stars: Mike's Peak
by Jack Bowers
The Les Brown All-Stars are actually three groups--the Dave Pell Octet, Ronny Lang Saxtet and Don Fagerquist Nonet--comprised for the most part of members or alumni of Brown's popular and long-lived Band of Renown and encircling on this anthology from the mid-'50s three numbers by Zoot Sims' older brother, trombonist Ray, with string section. Pell's group, ...
Pete Cater Big Band: The Right Time
by Jack Bowers
Pete Cater is arguably Great Britain's foremost big-band drummer, and The Right Time is yet another album--this would be the third, and second on Vocalion--of swinging, straight-ahead jazz by Cater and his ebullient ensemble from across the pond. As for the title, it should go without saying that any time is the right time to kick ...
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