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Michael Lutzeier & Artbop: Gleichmut... Und Zwar Sofort!
by Jack Bowers
Gleichmut... Und Zwar Sofort! doesn't translate well into English (or even German), says baritone saxophonist Michael Lutzeier. Fortunately for the listener, the music needs no interpreter. This is explicit post bop jazz, capably designed by Lutzeier's talented sextet and easily understood in any language. Lutzeier wrote half of the album's ten selections, pianist Claus Raible two. ...
Mark Adler: Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
by Jack Bowers
As one might reasonably deduce from its title, this isn't a big band album as such (even though it employs a full orchestra), but theme and background music for the film of the same name, scored and in some cases composed by Emmy Award-winning writer Mark Adler. It's an eclectic mix, as most film scores are, ...
Nancie Banks Orchestra: Out of It
by Jack Bowers
Out of It, recorded in January 2001, is the fourth--and I'm unhappy to report, the last--album by the New York-based Nancie Banks Orchestra. Banks died less than two years later, in November '02, at the too-young age of fifty-one. Her husband, trombonist Clarence Banks, is in the section on this album, as he was on the ...
Jan Levander / Ann-Sofi Soderqvist / Joakim Milder: Composer's Big Fun
by Jack Bowers
The first question that arises relative to this new recording from Sweden is this: Does Composer's Big Fun translate into big fun for the listener? For some listeners, perhaps--but not this one. Second question: Is Composer's Big Fun the name of the album, the group, or its mind-set? All of the above, I suppose. What we ...
Granddad Does Dallas
by Jack Bowers
The sixth annual University of North Texas Jazz Festival was my first. I may make it an annual event, too. The Festival, held March 31-April 2 in the north Dallas suburb of Addison, welcomed 53 middle school, high school and college big bands, combos and vocal groups from seventeen states, each of whom presented a brief ...
The Gary Urwin Jazz Orchestra: Kindred Spirits
by Jack Bowers
When I'm listening to a big band album for the first time, the “grin factor usually comes into play. The wider the smile, the greater the excitement and pleasure. As Gary Urwin's smoking arrangement of Lester Young's “Lester Leaps In sprang through the headphones, I was grinning from ear to ear, and the smile seldom slackened ...
Ryan Haines Big Band: New Horizons
by Jack Bowers
Having tested the water with his first big band album, To the Sky, five years ago, trombonist Ryan Haines springs from the high board, executes a triple somersault, and lands with barely a splash on his second, New Horizons. Unlike that earlier album, which was largely a tribute to the US Air Force (Haines was then ...
The Liberace Jazztet: On the Verge
by Jack Bowers
The Liberace Jazztet, based at Northern Illinois University, is so named because it was formed in 2001 as a result of a grant from the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts. The Jazztet is comprised of junior, senior and graduate students at the NIU School of Music who are designated “Liberace Scholars. When this ...
David Sills: Down the Line
by Jack Bowers
One of the great things about jazz is that there's always room for persuasive new voices, especially those who've mastered the vocabulary and know how to swing. Saxophonist David Sills, now in his mid-thirties, qualifies easily on both counts, as he shows consistently on Down the Line, evidently his second album as a leader of his ...
Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra East: Diamonds for Nat
by Jack Bowers
Throughout much of his musical career, trumpeter Nat Adderley was overshadowed by his larger-than-life sibling, the legendary alto saxophonist Julian “Cannonball Adderley. But Nat was a giant in his own right, not only as a player but also as a composer. (Does “Work Song ring a bell?) Nat also went out of his way to nurture ...
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