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Frode Kjekstad: New York Time
by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Frode Kjekstad is a Norwegian who makes himself at home in the Big Apple on this splendid album with New York companions Dr. Lonnie Smith, Byron Landham, and special guest Eric Alexander. To me, there are few musical alliances more pleasing than a guitar/organ/drums trio that sounds terrific and swings like a metronome, as this ...
Carl Saunders: Can You Dig Being Dug?
by Jack Bowers
Somewhere in the dimly remembered past, before the scufflers were hip and everyone knew what was happenin', there were “hepcats who devised a language all their own, one in which it wasn't difficult to imagine one saying to another, “Hey, man, can you dig being dug? That shopworn phrase, which serves as the title of trumpeter ...
Michael Pagan Big Band: Pag's Groove
by Jack Bowers
Big bands dead? Far from it, my friend. In fact, so many spectacular new albums have been released this year that I may have to enlarge my Top Ten list to a Top Twenty. Here's another leading candidate for inclusion on anyone's honor roll, Pag's Groove, composer/arranger/pianist Michael Pagán's highly impressive big band debut on Capri ...
Buddy Charles Concert Jazz Orchestra: We're Here
by Jack Bowers
In the interest of full disclosure, I must confess at the outset that I wrote the liner notes for We're Here--twice! It's a long story, but in essence, the album was recorded in 1993 (when I was first asked to write the liners) and was not released until this year (when I agreed to rewrite them). ...
Blue Skies, Smilin' at Me...
by Jack Bowers
The early morning sky over Albuquerque is awash in brilliant colors this week as hundreds of gas-powered balloons of all shapes and sizes become airborne as a part of the thirty-fourth annual International Balloon Fiesta. With midday temperatures now in the seventies, autumn is in the air and gaining ground fast. Nothing to do with Jazz; ...
Tony Vacca: Three Point Landing
by Jack Bowers
I first heard saxophonist Tony Vacca almost fifteen years ago with Rob Parton's JazzTech Big Band. He impressed me then, and has done so again with Three Point Landing, whose title denotes Vacca's journey from Chicago through New Orleans to Phoenix, Arizona, where he now lives, performs and teaches. The album was obviously recorded during Vacca's ...
Ken Taylor Sextet: Live in Concert
by Jack Bowers
In my line of work one occasionally meets working musicians, some of whom are accompanied by their latest (sometimes first) album. I met trumpeter Ken Taylor at the Prescott (AZ) Jazz Summit in late August, and he sheepishly apologized for offering me a copy of Live in Concert, the debut album by the Ken Taylor Sextet. ...
Arizona Jazz Academy: Live at the TCC!
by Jack Bowers
One of the pleasures of attending a jazz festival (most of them, anyway) is seeing younger musicians interact with the pros, learning how to work together, to listen, respond and improvise, and helping to reassure us that the future of jazz is in reasonably good hands. Among the bands invited to take part in the Prescott ...
Frank Morgan: Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Vol. 2
by Jack Bowers
Raising the Standard, Frank Morgan's second album for HighNote, is a followup to last year's widely acclaimed City Nights, recorded, like that release, before an audience at the Jazz Standard nightclub in New York City. The lineup remains the same, with Morgan accompanied by a superlative rhythm section comprised of pianist George Cables, bassist Curtis Lundy ...
Jeff Kaye: Just Like Me
by Jack Bowers
This breezy, boppish blowing session by Los Angeles-based trumpeter Jeff Kaye's quintet calls to mind Blue Note dates from the '50s and '60s featuring the likes of Lee Morgan, Horace Silver, Wynton Kelly, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Cedar Walton, Wayne Shorter, Tommy Flanagan, and so many others. It's most likely not destined to become a classic, ...
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