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Odds 'n Ends
by Jack Bowers
There's not a whole lot to write about this month (aside from Super Bowl XL, and that's not something we'll dive into here) so we'll call this ghoulash “odds 'n ends. Brother Ed in Maryland sent me a brochure detailing the 15th annual Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Festival set for February 15-20 in suburban Rockville. A ...
Frank Macchia: Mo' Animals
by Jack Bowers
I looked up “versatile in Webster's and there, believe it or not, was a picture of Frank Macchia. (No, not really, but there could have been.) On Mo' Animals, his graphic “tribute to all creatures big and small, Macchia plays no fewer than fourteen instruments (fifteen including synths) and handles drum programming when necessary. Oh, and ...
Lungau Big Band: Live at Montreux / The Monk's Progress / Soulmiles
by Jack Bowers
The Lungau Big Band is from Austria, which may surprise those who were unaware that western Europe is a prolific breeding ground for world-class big-band Jazz. Leader / trumpeter Horst Hofer was kind enough to send me copies of the LBB's three most recent discs, two of which -- Live at Montreux, The Monk's Progress -- ...
Poston Gathering Welcomes Buddy Charles Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
I received a phone call in late December from Buddy Charles to wish me a happy New Year and let me know that the Buddy Charles Jazz Orchestra would be performing at the next Ken Poston-L.A. Jazz Institute extravaganza, Encores in Big Band Jazz, May 25-28 at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles. I ...
Blue Notes Orchestra: 30th Anniversary
by Jack Bowers
The Blue Notes Orchestra hails from Hamamatsu and is one of a number of outstanding contemporary Japanese big bands who continue to make it clear beyond any doubt that one doesn't have to be born and bred in the USA to master the fine art of jazz musicianship. Blue Notes is as proficient in every respect ...
Jack Bowers' Best of 2005
by Jack Bowers
Selected picks representing the top recorded big band jazz for 2005... New Releases Emerald City Jazz Orchestra Come Rain or Come Shine Pony Boy Records Gerald Wilson Orchestra In My Time Mack Avenue Records ...
Hanepoot & the Biggish Band: Salt & Vinegar
by Jack Bowers
A case in which the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. Jannie “Hanepoot van Tonder's Biggish Band from South Africa isn't the most impressive ensemble I've heard recently--not by a long shot--while the soloists on Salt & Vinegar are as a whole unexciting, the sound for the most part less than adequate. ...
Rodger Fox and Brian Smith: The LA-NZ Connection
by Jack Bowers
Jazz truly is a universal language, a premise that is proven again on this spirited post bop studio date by two of New Zealand's most celebrated musicians, trombonist Rodger Fox and saxophonist Brian Smith, backed by a blue-chip West Coast rhythm section--pianist Bill Cunliffe, guitarist Larry Koonse, bassist Tom Warrington, and drummer Joe La Barbera (with ...
The Mike Barone Big Band: Live 2005!
by Jack Bowers
Six years ago the CD reissue of Mike Barone's album Live at Donte's 1968 was number two on my annual list of the top ten jazz recordings. To say I was looking forward to Mike's next album would be an understatement. Here it is, only 37 years later (!), and I am delighted to report that ...
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Strange Fruit
by Jack Bowers
If there is any justice, Irvin Mayfield's powerful cantata that lays bare the taboo of interracial love and the horrors of lynching in the Jim Crow South should assume an honored place among the celebrated masterpieces of early 21st Century music. That probably won't happen, as justice is almost as scarce today as it was then, ...
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