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Clark Terry with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra: Porgy & Bess
by Jack Bowers
More than four decades ago, trumpeter Miles Davis collaborated with arranger Gil Evans to produce what many observers look upon as the definitive jazz version of George Gershwin's groundbreaking folk opera, Porgy and Bess. It takes a sturdy backbone, not to mention enormous talent, to reproduce and strive to enrich a classic, but into the breach ...
The Bruce Eskovitz Jazz Orchestra: Regions
by Jack Bowers
If Stan Kenton were alive today, he'd no doubt be leading the applause for the Bruce Eskovitz Jazz Orchestra. Kenton was a visionary who not only welcomed new ideas but often introduced them; while others looked to the past for inspiration, he looked to the future for adventure. Although it may seem presumptuous to speak for ...
The Bob Mintzer Big Band: Live at MCG with Kurt Elling
by Jack Bowers
Bob Mintzer leads a superlative big band with seasoned pros in every chair, but what really gives the engine its get-up-and-go are the maestro's invariably admirable charts, unerring road maps that always ensure a smooth and delightful journey. This first-ever live album by the ensemble, recorded in May '02 at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh, ...
The George Gee Big Band: Settin' the Pace
by Jack Bowers
George Gee, big band jazz's answer to the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going and going and going... The diminutive New York-based dynamo leads at least two and perhaps as many as four bands. For the neo-swing crowd there's the Jump Jive and Wailers; for dancers there's the Make Believe Ballroom Orchestra; for those who lean toward ...
Count Basie & Friends: 100th Birthday Bash
by Jack Bowers
To honor the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the incomparable Count Basie (August 21, 1904), Roulette Records has gone to the vaults and unearthed recordings made by the Basie Orchestra and smaller groups spanning the years 1957-62 when the Count was working for Roulette. All of the material on the two-disc set was previously issued, ...
Count Basie: The Count Basie Story
by Jack Bowers
To mark the Count Basie Orchestra's silver anniversary in 1960, Roulette Records released a double album comprised of updated versions of many of the band's classic recordings from those twenty-five years. This double-disc set, one of two issued by Roulette to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Basie's birth (the other is Count Basie & Friends ), ...
Recalling Another Solemn Occasion
by Jack Bowers
While noting last month the centenary of the birth of the Kid from Red Bank, William “Count" Basie, I overlooked a second milestone, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the passing of another Jazz legend, the renowned bandleader Stanley Newcomb Kenton, who died in Los Angeles on August 25, 1979, age sixty-eight. There's not much one can say ...
Amanda Sedgwick: Reunion
by Jack Bowers
Here's yet another clear refutation of the ludicrous assertion that women jazz musicians are unable to measure up to their male counterparts. I know nothing about alto saxophonist Amanda Sedgwick--as Reunion was recorded in Stockholm, she may be Swedish--but I do know a player when I hear one, and Sedgwick not only holds her own on ...
Teraesa Vinson: Opportunity Please Knock
by Jack Bowers
Opportunity is the debut recording by vocalist Teraesa Vinson (perhaps “Dr. Vinson" is more appropriate, as she earned a Ph.D in psychology at the University of Florida before pursuing a career in music), and she seems to have a lot going for her. For example, she has a good set of pipes, adequate range, sings on-key, ...
Anders Persson: Lonely Fungus
by Jack Bowers
Another superb piano trio, this one led by Swedish virtuoso Anders Persson, whose main challenge lies in the fact that there are so many others at or close to its level. Nowadays, playing impeccably isn't nearly enough to make an audience sit up and take notice; there must be a collective persona, some indefinable yet indispensable ...
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