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Various Artists: Circa 1960
by Jack Bowers
This is an interesting album, historically speaking, as the first five tracks are taken from Gene Hall's final concert as director of what was then the Laboratory Dance Band A at North Texas State College (now the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas). The date was April 27, 1959, and the admission ...
The Stamm/Soph Project: Live at Birdland
by Jack Bowers
Studio recordings are nice, but if you want to know how jazz musicians really work together, place them in front of an audience. For the Marvin Stamm/Ed Soph Quartet, that's no problem. This is a working unit comprised of gentlemen who not only play together regularly but are temperamentally and musically compatible, to boot. In other ...
Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra: Contemporary Jazz Composition
by Jack Bowers
There are some genuinely absorbing contemporary jazz compositions on this concert recording from four years ago by the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra conducted by Justin DiCioccio; a shame there aren't more of them. Judging from the 31:43 playing time, I'd presume the disc wasn't intended for commercial release but designed more as a teaching/listening ...
Stewy von Wattenwyl: Dienda
by Jack Bowers
Dienda, Swiss pianist Stewy von Wattenwyl's fifth album for Brambus Records, is an impressively recorded studio date, which wouldn't mean much if von Wattenwyl and his colleagues were less than impressive. Happily, they are not. Von Wattenwyl, whose reputation is growing in his own country and elsewhere, clearly has found his own voice within a framework ...
Dan Haerle: Standard Procedure
by Jack Bowers
According to a press release accompanying this new album from BluJazz, the three musicians who perform therein are “living legends. Well, I wouldn't know about that, but they are pretty darn good. Pianist Dan Haerle, the group's nominal leader, plays marvelously, but no more so than bassist Bob Bowman or drummer Jack Mouse, whose decorous backdrops ...
The Howard University Jazz Ensemble: Grace Notes: HUJE 2004
by Jack Bowers
There's a lot to be said for continuity. The Howard University Jazz Ensemble, formed thirty years ago, has had only one director, Fred Irby III. For 29 of those years, Irby has taken the ensemble into a recording studio to produce an album, the most recent of which is Grace Notes, or HUJE 2004. Although the ...
The Bill Holman Band Live
by Jack Bowers
The Bill Holman Band Live Jazzed Media 2005 Big band album of the year? It's too early to say, but the first-ever live recording by the superlative Bill Holman Band has earned front-runner status for that honor and will surely be hard to trump. Holman, an acknowledged master in the ...
Neophonic Impressions
by Jack Bowers
As the plane on which I was a passenger touched down in Albuquerque late in the afternoon on Memorial Day, I remained deep in thought, wondering to myself how one could possibly summarize in words the memorable experience that was Neophonic Impressions, a big-band extravaganza held May 26-29 at the Four Points Sheraton-LAX Hotel and sponsored ...
The Lars Halle Jazz Orchestra: Speaking of Apropos
by Jack Bowers
Speaking of stylish big bands that seem to emerge fully grown from out of nowhere, here's Speaking of Apropos, recorded about a year ago by drummer Lars Halle's eighteen-piece ensemble--not from nowhere but from that prominent breeding ground for outstanding East Coast jazz, Philadelphia, PA, where Halle, a Swedish expatriate, earns his daily bread teaching at ...
The Mike Vax Big Band: Next Stop: Live... On the Road
by Jack Bowers
The Mike Vax Big Band Next Stop: Live... On the Road Summit Records 2005 Word is that the days when lesser-known big bands boarded buses and traveled from town to town in a series of grueling one-night stands are gone forever. Happily for those who appreciate live big-band ...
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