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Bob Dorough: Sunday at Iridium
by Jack Bowers
If a singer doesn't have a great voice, he (or she) would be well-served by having a keen sense of humor. Singer/songwriter Bob Dorough doesn't have a great voice, but he has a good one, which he uses ingeniously, and as for the sense of humor--well, he once served for two years as music director for ...
The Straight Ahead Big Band: The Third Time
by Jack Bowers
The third album by the Northern California-based Straight Ahead Big Band features more well-played swing/dance music with some jazz thrown in and eight earnest vocals by Nancy Fischer. The eleven instrumentals are wide-ranging, from Dixie ("South Rampart Street Parade") to a cha-cha ("Cherry Pink") and waltz ("Jean"), ballad ("Trumpet Nocturne") to Basie ("Two O'Clock Jump") and ...
Tierney Sutton: Dancing in the Dark
by Jack Bowers
Tierney Sutton's latest Telarc release celebrates the music of Frank Sinatra--not the ring-a-ding-ding, devil-may-care, wise-cracking leader of the Rat Pack who was the epitome of hipness and bravado, but, as Sutton observes in the liner notes, the “dark corners" of Sinatra's work that she finds “endlessly compelling." The mood is hushed, sentimental and pensive as Sutton ...
Odds 'n Ends Before Dashing Off . . .
by Jack Bowers
Happy New Year! Clearing the desk on the eve of my departure for the 32nd annual conference of the International Association for Jazz Education in Long Beach, CA . . . Speaking of the IAJE, one of the seven outstanding figures in Jazz to be honored this year as Jazz Masters by the National Endowment for ...
The Christian Jacob Trio: Styne & Mine
by Jack Bowers
At Ken Poston's all-star tribute to trumpeter Maynard Ferguson in Los Angeles last October, the pianist for most groups, large or small, was Maynard's son-in-law, Christian Jacob, who didn't land the gig because of family connections. When Tierney Sutton, who has worked with Jacob for nearly a dozen years and is the guest vocalist on “Guess ...
Ladd McIntosh Big Band: Temptation & Ride the Night Beast
by Jack Bowers
The Ladd McIntosh Big Band Temptation Ride the Night Beast L.E.M. Records 2004 These albums, recorded side-by-side in December '03, summarize accurately and completely the musical perspective of composer/arranger/orchestrator/bandleader Ladd McIntosh, a man whose heart was given early in life to the Great American Songbook ( ...
Norman Simmons 2000-2004
by Jack Bowers
Norman Simmons The Art of Norman Simmons (2000) Synthesis (2002) In Private (2004) Savant Records Better late than never. Listening to these impressive sessions by pianist Norman Simmons and his sundry companions, spanning the years 2000-2004, the thought occurs that it would be a shame ...
Kurt Jarnberg: Down Memory Lane & Who Can I Turn To?
by Jack Bowers
Kurt Jarnberg Down Memory Lane & Who Can I Turn To? KJR Records 1972 & 1996I can't quite remember how I was “introduced" to Swedish trombonist/trumpeter Kurt Jarnberg but I'm reasonably sure it had something to do with the internet. Whatever the circumstances, Kurt was kind enough to ...
Paul Seaforth: When Did You Leave Heaven?
by Jack Bowers
Paul Seaforth wears a number of hats on his newest album, When Did You Leave Heaven? --vocalist, trumpeter, saxophonist, arranger, lyricist and co-producer with his wife, Linda. While it's hardly a one-man show--Seaforth has a splendid backup crew--he's definitely the focal point, singing on every number save Juan Tizol's “Caravan" and soloing, even if briefly (and ...
The Bob Rockwell 5: Bob's Wilder
by Jack Bowers
Here's another album to file under “p" for “pleasant surprises." Bob Rockwell, an American saxophonist who traveled to Denmark as a young man and has lived there ever since (which may explain the omission of his name in both the New Grove Dictionary and Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz ), is a persuasive modernist on tenor or ...
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