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Stefan Karlsson Trio: Music Is Forever: The Music of Russ Freeman
by Jack Bowers
Music may be forever, but until the advent of modern recording devices, it was also ephemeral. Once the notes had been played or sung, they were gone forever. Thankfully, we now have the means by which to preserve wonderful music such as that written by Russ Freeman--if not forever, at least for many years to come. ...
Prescott: Jazz at the Summit
by Jack Bowers
The afternoon was warm and postcard-perfect as Betty and I made the two-hour drive north on I-17 from Phoenix to Prescott, AZ. It was Thursday, August 25, and we had flown from Albuquerque to attend the fifth annual Prescott Jazz Summit, scheduled to begin the following day with a noontime concert at the city's picturesque Courthouse ...
Don Menza Big Band: Menza Lines
by Jack Bowers
Don Menza Big Band Menza Lines Jazzed Media 2005 Menza Lines is the second big-band album recorded in October '04 during Stratospheric, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute's salute to the music and career of high-note trumpet maestro Maynard Ferguson. Like the first one, Bill Holman Live, it's a ...
Richie Cole: Back on Top
by Jack Bowers
While I'm never pleased when someone calls a septet an orchestra, I must concede that alto saxophonist Richie Cole's new album, Back on Top, quickly captured my heart, enabling me to lay that grievance aside and focus on the music, which is consistently upbeat and enjoyable. And thanks to Cole's clever charts, the ensemble does seem ...
The Howard Williams Big Band: Live at the Garage
by Jack Bowers
Here's an interesting big band release that features some rather spirited blowing and a quite appropriate title. If someone had asked me, sight unseen, where it was recorded, I'd have said, “Probably in a garage. And so it was, hence the name Live at the Garage, which is apparently a nightspot on New York City's Seventh ...
H: Hokus Fokus
by Jack Bowers
Too much Hokus, not enough Fokus. It seems the younger generation has taken a singularly soft and melodious instrument, namely the guitar, and turned it into a coarse and irritating noisemaker. Where are Johnny Smith, Tal Farlow and Billy Bauer when we need them? (Well, we already know the answer to that.) To be fair, there ...
Maggi Olin Band: Le Sp
by Jack Bowers
Le Spécialité, Swedish pianist Maggi Olin's fourth album for Prophone, is certainly well-played, but it hasn't got much staying power. In other words, it's not something I'd choose to listen to more than is necessary. At least a part of the reason for my lack of enthusiasm rests with Olin's compositions (she wrote and arranged everything), ...
Miami Saxophone Quartet: Midnight Rumba
by Jack Bowers
Several things help set the Miami Saxophone Quartet apart from comparable groups: one, the brilliantly textured charts, most of them written by Ed Calle or Gary Lindsay; two, the emphasis on Latin and Hispanic motifs and melodies, epitomized by Calle's three-movement Iberia Suite; and three, the use of percussion on three selections, guest artist Arturo Sandoval ...
Ove Ingemarsson Quartet: New Blues
by Jack Bowers
New Blues offers more than an hour of agreeable post bop jazz, handsomely wrapped and ably performed by tenor saxophonist Ove Ingemarsson's quartet from Sweden, similar to much of what I've heard from other groups here and abroad. That's the good news. The bad news is that it's similar to much of what I've heard from ...
NYJO Featuring Atila the Killer Diller: Something Old, Something New
by Jack Bowers
Great Britain's superlative National Youth Jazz Orchestra, which celebrates its fortieth birthday in October (how the time does fly!), has had a number of topnotch vocalists through the years, most of them female--Jenny Howe, Annabel Williams, Jacqui Hicks, Lorraine Craig, Sheena Davies, Sumudu Jayatilaka--and now comes their male counterpart, personable Atila Huseyin, nicknamed by the band ...
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