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Ulf Wakenius: Tokyo Blue
by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Ulf Wakenius, who has performed with a number of jazz heavyweights from Oscar Peterson and Michael Brecker to Ray Brown and Jack DeJohnette, writes that his new release, Tokyo Blue, is designed to express the various aspects of his musical temperament, from sweetness to swing. The album is evenly divided between the two components, with ...
The Radio King Orchestra: RKO / Live from Timpano / Put a Little Boogie in My Stocking
by Jack Bowers
The Radio King Orchestra RKO (1999) Put a Little Boogie in My Stocking (2000) Live from Timpano (2003) RKO My brother Ed saw and heard the Radio King Orchestra playing recently at a suburban Maryland shopping mall and suggested that I check it out. And so ...
Kit McClure Band: The Sweethearts Project
by Jack Bowers
The Kit McClure Band The Sweethearts Project Redhot Records 2004 The subtitle of this new album by the New York-based Kit McClure Band is “A Tribute to the International Sweethearts of Rhythm." For those of you who weren't around in the '40s, that may require a few words ...
Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra: Get Well Soon
by Jack Bowers
Get Well Soon is the third recording by the New Art Orchestra, an eighteen-piece ensemble formed nearly two decades ago in Lubeck, Germany, as a jazz component of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and overseen since its inception by the renowned American trombonist and composer, Bob Brookmeyer. Brookmeyer loves the NAO ("It has been my good fortune ...
Lars Jansson/Bohusl: Temenos
by Jack Bowers
Lars Jansson is what one would call the complete package: a marvelous composer, resourceful arranger and masterful pianist, comfortable in any framework from trio to large ensemble, as he is on this scintillating new release by Sweden's world-class Bohuslän Big Band. This is Jansson's third recording with the triple-B, and as on the others ( The ...
Remembering Lars Gullin: The Sanda Church Concerts, 1998-2000
by Jack Bowers
These handsomely recorded tributes to the legendary Swedish baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin serve as a reminder of what a superlative composer he was; the baker's dozen of beguiling melodies were written by Gullin, a musical genius who died in 1976 at age 48. The sessions were recorded from 1998-2000 at Sanda Church in Gotland by three ...
Keeping 'Count'
by Jack Bowers
This month marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of William “Count" Basie who was born August 21, 1904, in Red Bank, New Jersey. Basie was a big-band leader for nearly half a century, which is quite a record, even considering that big bands once were so popular that leaders like him, not to mention ...
The Ed Vezinho/Jim Ward Big Band: Blue Haired Mama
by Jack Bowers
Make room in the satchel; the second album by the spectacular Ed Vezinho/Jim Ward Big Band has at last arrived, and it's definitely earmarked for shipment to that mythical “desert island," along with the ensemble's spine-tingling debut, Smile, which was No. 1 on this reviewer's Top 10 survey of new releases three years ago. As before, ...
Lou Marini & the Magic City Jazz Orchestra: Lou's Blues
by Jack Bowers
Lou's Blues, an exercise in ultra-modern composing, arranging and blowing by Lou Marini Jr. and the Magic City Jazz Orchestra, may bring a smile to the face of many big-band enthusiasts and leave others shaking their heads in bewilderment. It depends on one's point of view. Marini, whose influences include blues, rock and free jazz as ...
Carl Fischer & Organic Groove Ensemble: Renaissance Man
by Jack Bowers
Every musician--especially one who leads--has a game plan, and we can't simply dismiss it out of hand. We must listen and assess the plan on its merits. Trumpeter Carl Fischer, a mainstay in Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau ensemble, has spent several years putting together a group of his own, the latest version of which is ...
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