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Millennium Jazz Orchestra: Oatts Notes
by Jack Bowers
The Netherlands is home to at least two world-class big bands, the Dutch Jazz Orchestra and the perhaps lesser-known but no less resourceful and accomplished Millennium Jazz Orchestra, which proves again on its latest album, Oatts Notes, that superlative jazz ensembles are by no means confined to any specific area but continue to flourish all over ...
The Jive-Ass All-Stars: Streetwalkin' Blues
by Jack Bowers
Riding the burgeoning wave of enthusiasm for horny, salacious music sparked by the Academy Award-winning rap song “It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp from the movie Hustle and Flow, a number of smooth jazz's brightest stars have produced a remarkably soporific new album, Streetwalkin' Blues, using a hybrid musical style they've labeled Contemporary Rap and ...
Vic Vogel / European Jazz Orchestra: Hommage
by Jack Bowers
For nearly a decade, Swinging Europe has given young musicians from across the continent a chance to play together for one summer month, traveling all over Europe as members of the European Jazz Youth Orchestra. Each year a new composer is chosen to conduct the orchestra. The conductor has always been European--until now. Breaking with tradition, ...
Watch Out! Swedish Jazz Volume 10, 1965-1969
by Jack Bowers
Various Artists Watch Out! Svensk Jazzhistoria Vol. 10 - Swedish Jazz 1965-69 (4 CD Box) Caprice Records 2006 The late '60s were a time of transition for Swedish Jazz, as they were in the US and elsewhere, with John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and other ...
National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Two Suites by Paul Hart
by Jack Bowers
National Youth Jazz Orchestra Two Suites by Paul Hart NYJCD 2006 Two Suites represents a change of pace for Great Britain's splendid National Youth Jazz Orchestra, which has confined its previous albums for the most part to shorter original compositions by a variety of writers with a sprinkling of themes ...
The Ted Hogarth Collective: Misconception
by Jack Bowers
I was unfamiliar with saxophonist Ted Hogarth, but my hunch before listening to his second album, Misconception, was that anyone who has played with Rob Parton's Chicago-based JazzTech Big Band, as Hogarth has, must be pretty darned good. That impression was correct. Hogarth is pretty darned good--and so is his six-member Collective, which lives up to ...
Northern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble: Swinging Every Which Way But Loose
by Jack Bowers
To show clearly where his sentiments lie, Ronald Carter, director of the renowned Northern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble, has included the word “swing (or “swinging ) in the title of each of the four albums the band has released since he took charge of the program nearly a decade ago. The latest, Swinging Every Which Way ...
Phil Woods: Unheard Herd
by Jack Bowers
Phil Woods Unheard Herd Jazzed Media 2006 As a reviewer, I am privileged to receive and hear a veritable boatload of albums from big bands all over the world, but Unheard Herd has done something none of those others could -- it has actually made me feel young again. Listening ...
Vic Vogel / Le Jazz Band: Hangin' Loose
by Jack Bowers
Although relatively unknown in the lower 48, Vic Vogel has been one of the brightest lights on the Canadian jazz scene for many years, a renowned composer, arranger and pianist who also presides over a superb Montreal-based big band. Much like Canadian counterparts Rob McConnell and Dave McMurdo, Vogel's bandleading recipe is unequivocal--engage the best musicians ...
Albuquerque's Red-Letter Day
by Jack Bowers
A sold-out house at a jazz concert? In Albuquerque, New Mexico? It's possible. The two-day Albuquerque Jazz Festival closed February 18 with a concert featuring as guest artists trumpeter Wayne Bergeron and saxophonist Danny House, and if there was an empty seat in the Eldorado High School Performing Arts Center, which can accommodate more than 430 ...
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