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The Mark Masters Ensemble: One Day with Lee
by Jack Bowers
Having heard The Clifford Brown Project and now One Day with Lee, featuring the peerless alto saxophonist (and composer) Lee Konitz, I can hardly wait to hear what the Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble and its sponsor, the American Jazz Institute, plan to do next. If these aren’t two of the finest big-band albums of the past ...
The Steve Huffsteter Big Band: Gathered Around
by Jack Bowers
To me -- and I'm confident that others must feel the same -- about the only thing better than hearing a great big band is seeing and hearing a great big band, which is precisely what I am doing as this review is being written. The band in question is led by trumpeter / composer Steve ...
The Dan Thomas Quintet: City Scope
by Jack Bowers
City Scope is the debut album as leader for Dan Thomas, a Canadian-born saxophonist who now lives in Kansas City, MO. His talents as player and composer are lavishly praised in the liner notes by friend and colleague Bobby Watson, whose influence is readily apparent in Thomas’s music, especially in his approach to the alto sax, ...
George Gee and the Jump, Jive and Wailers: Buddha Boogie
by Jack Bowers
George Gee, as energetic and enthusiastic a bandleader as you are likely to meet, has at least two bands under his baton, the larger Swing Orchestra and the Jump, Jive and Wailers, which is actually a tentet. And he may have three, if the Swing Orchestra isn’t a renamed version of Gee’s Make Believe Ballroom Orchestra, ...
Jim Galloway: Echoes of Swing
by Jack Bowers
There has been much discussion recently at the Kentonia (fans of Stan Kenton) web site about swing—what it is (and isn’t), how one can identify and/or define it, does it mean the same thing to different people, and so on. May I suggest that those who’ve not yet gotten their hands around the topic pick up ...
The George Gee Swing Orchestra: Swingin' at Swing City Zurich
by Jack Bowers
According to the liner notes, George Gee’s Swingin’ at Swing City Zurich was recorded in a train station, the Hautbanhoff, an assertion that isn’t hard to believe once one hears the outcome. Having enthusiastically reviewed two of Gee’s earlier albums ( Swingin’ Live!, Swingin’ Away ), also recorded in concert, I was rather let down by ...
The Sheena Davis Group: Young at Heart
by Jack Bowers
In his liner notes for the second album by the Sheena Davis Group, Richard Niles of BBC Radio 2 praises songstress Davis’s “perfect intonation, groove-laden emotive phrasing, charming vibrato and tone as clear as a cloudless sky.” Having given the group’s earlier album a generally lukewarm review, I’d say this one is roughly its equivalent. While ...
John Alexander: You Need 'Dis
by Jack Bowers
As its saucy title implies, North Carolina-based saxophonist John Alexander and his colleagues are into some serious post-boppin’ on this self-produced album, which showcases ten of Alexander’s engaging compositions. Alexander, who plays flute (“La Danseuse Triste,” “Lights of Madeira“) as well as tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, is of course featured prominently throughout, but the soloist ...
Jazz Appreciation Month
by Jack Bowers
You probably know this already, but April is Jazz Appreciation Month. Given the state of Jazz today, especially here in the land of its birth, it is quite appropriate that JAM should have begun on April Fool’s Day. Be that as it may, a number of events are (were) planned in various places including telecasts on ...
The Phil Norman Tentet: Wide Range
by Jack Bowers
The Phil Norman Tentet opens its fourth album, Wide Range, with Bob Florence’s finger-busting arrangement of “Autumn Leaves,” and had it stopped on that dime, I’d have already been wrapped up and sold. But there’s more than an hour of music yet to come, all of it high-octane super premium (and unleaded), as Norman and his ...
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