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The Dave Stahl Band: Live at the Ritz
by Jack Bowers
Some musicians, it seems, can't avoid notoriety and praise, while others, equally talented, somehow manage to fly under the radar. Trumpeter Dave Stahl is a notable member of the second group, earning no mention in the All Music Guide to Jazz in spite of having recorded at least three splendid albums dating back to 1987. He's ...
University of North Texas Two O'Clock Lab Band: The Best of the Big O
by Jack Bowers
The challenge when reviewing an album by any of the University of North Texas' superlative jazz ensembles is to find something to criticize. Perhaps you can; I can't. This is decisively true of the seventh recording by the UNT Two O'Clock Lab Band under the able direction of James Riggs, who has been at the helm ...
Sammy Nestico: A Portrait of Sammy
by Jack Bowers
The Portrait of Sammy shown on the cover of renowned composer/arranger Sammy Nestico's newest album shows a man grinning from ear to ear, clearly enjoying what he does and relishing the fruits of his enduring success. And why not? Sammy has been at the top of his game for nearly half a century, and he shows ...
Drake University Jazz Ensemble 1: Latenight at the Mainstay: Return to Nowhere
by Jack Bowers
While this isn't the first album by the Drake University Jazz Ensemble (there have been at least two others), it is the first to be recorded at “home in the university's jazz-linked Mainstay building, hence the album's title. The album was actually taped during a few late-night sessions in May '04 at the Mainstay, which is ...
Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined
by Jack Bowers
In the seven decades since its completion, George Gershwin's landmark folk opera Porgy & Bess has been “redefined on a number of occasions by various jazz artists, perhaps most notably in 1959 by trumpeter Miles Davis with an orchestra conducted by arranger Gil Evans (a touchstone that was astutely reinterpreted only last year by Clark Terry ...
Jazz Returns to Network Television
by Jack Bowers
Just back from a brief vacation in IL, looking forward to Ken Poston's Neophonic Impressions event May 26-29 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel in Los Angeles, and gearing up for a great summer of Jazz right here in Albuquerque. Perhaps the biggest news this month concerns the launch on June 16 of the first ...
The McGill University Jazz Orchestra: Ostinatocious
by Jack Bowers
While there may be some doubt that Ostinatocious is really a word, there's no doubt that the McGill University Jazz Orchestra from Montreal, Canada, is really a band. This is the MJO's eighth album, and to say it is up to its usual standards is the most earnest compliment one can bestow. Ostinatocious spans the years ...
Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra West: The Minute Game
by Jack Bowers
If I had to choose between trombonist Scott Whitfield's Jazz Orchestra East and Jazz Orchestra West--well, I'd probably go off the deep end before I could make up my mind, or what was left of it. I loved the SWJO East's Live at Birdland (Summit, 2004), and now comes the SWJO West to blow me away ...
The New South Jazz Orchestra: Got the Spirit
by Jack Bowers
If this is what the New South is about, count me in. From guitarist Tom Wolfe's chordal opening on “Harlem Chaser, one can sense that the New South Jazz Orchestra means serious business on its debut album, Got the Spirit, an impression that is reinforced time and again on the sharp and soulful studio date. The ...
Thomas Marriott: Individuation
by Jack Bowers
Talk about getting off on the wrong foot. On Individuation, trumpeter Thomas Marriott (and arranger Joe Locke) turn Joe Raposo's sunny, down-to-earth melody on the opening “Sing a Song into a pretentious, dirge-like hymn that robs it of its charm and manages to make the endeavor seem much longer than its actual 5:16 playing time. Marriott ...
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