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The Neophonic Orchestras: New Horizons, Volumes 1 and 2
by Jack Bowers
The Neophonic Orchestra New Horizons, Volumes 1 and 2 Tantara Productions 2005 The date was January 4, 1965, and the audience that waited anxiously in the newly christened Dorothy Chandler Pavilion hardly knew what to expect. They had come to hear the first-ever performance by the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra, ...
Dallas Christian Jazz Band: Sermonette
by Jack Bowers
Sermonette is the third and most recent recording by the Dallas Christian Jazz Band, one of several groups that use traditional hymns and other sacred music as the basis for contemporary big-band jazz. Those who wrote the music would no doubt be surprised to hear how readily it lends itself to a more modern format. While ...
High Brass: Time for a Change
by Jack Bowers
As this review is being written from an advance copy of Time for a Change by the High Brass from Liverpool, England, courtesy of director John Flannery, I have no details save for the names of selections and soloists, and a few words about the band supplied by Flannery in a letter, so let's begin there. ...
Holly Hofmann: Minor Miracle
by Jack Bowers
The flute is a hard sell for a small core of jazz purists who'd rather it were confined to the precincts of the local symphony orchestra. At best a change of pace, at worst a nuisance. Those who feel that way had best stop reading at this point while I sing the praises of Holly Hofmann, ...
Jim Manley: Alter Ego
by Jack Bowers
Jim Manley is an impressive trumpeter (and pianist), as he proved on an earlier album, Splendor in the Brass, and his sidemen are no doubt talented musicians as well, but what they have conspired to produce on Alter Ego is surely aimed at a generation younger than my own, people who grew up listening to MTV, ...
Jazz in Albuquerque: Down But Not Out
by Jack Bowers
June 23 was hardly a red-letter day for Jazz here in Albuquerque. To be honest, doomsday could be a more apt description, for that was the day on which Ed Ulman, executive director of the New Mexico Jazz Workshop, had to make the “toughest phone call of his life. The recipient of that call, in Tucson, ...
Philip Catherine/Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Meeting Colours
by Jack Bowers
I've sometimes wondered why guitarists don't record more often with big bands. Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass, among others, proved that such a marriage can work quite well, as does Belgian maestro Philip Catherine--who reminds me of Pass--on this impressive new album with the world-class Brussels Jazz Orchestra. Catherine wrote all but one tune, Ellington's “In ...
Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-In
by Jack Bowers
Here's a tight, swinging album by a group of world-class musicians who are all but unknown here in the States. Pianist Roberto Magris, from Trieste, Italy, is the leader, and his quintet, Europlane, is so named because its members hail from four European countries. The front line consists of tenor/soprano saxophonists Tony Lakatos (Hungary) and Michael ...
Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra: Sketches of Spain Live
by Jack Bowers
The celebrated Miles Davis/Gil Evans partnership, which produced three classic albums more than forty years ago, is undergoing a mini-renaissance that started with the recent interpretation of Porgy & Bess by trumpeter Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra and gave rise as well to this meticulous reprise of Sketches of Spain featuring David Liebman with ...
Various Artists: One More: Music of Thad Jones
by Jack Bowers
The term “all-star is used often these days to describe many groups, some of which even deserve the label. One More (which could be the name of this eight-member co-op or the album itself; your guess is as good as mine) doesn't call itself an all-star ensemble, but it could. Hank Jones, James Moody, Frank Wess, ...
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