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The Big Band Alumni Association: Platinum Swing
by Jack Bowers
Ever wonder what happened to the many seasoned big-band musicians who vanished along with most of the bands that once defined an era? As it turns out, some of them are still alive and kicking, as one can readily hear on this new album by the aptly named Big Band Alumni Association. Each member of the ...
The Stewy von Wattenwyl Trio Featuring Eric Alexander: Live at Bird's Eye
by Jack Bowers
Pianist Stewy von Wattenwyl, a rising star in his native Switzerland (where they even know how to pronounce his name), invited one of America's outstanding young tenor saxophonists, Eric Alexander, to accompany his trio last spring on a ten-day tour of Swiss nightspots, one evening of which was recorded at the Bird's Eye club in Basel. ...
The Daniel Schenker Quartet: Iridium
by Jack Bowers
More inspired jazz from overseas. It's musicians like Daniel Schenker and albums like Iridium that make this country's so-called jazz polls so patently ludicrous. Technically and creatively, Schenker is on a par with many of the trumpeters whose names regularly appear at or near the top surveys conducted by critics or laymen and published in our ...
Walt Harper & All That Jazz: Be My Guest/Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
by Jack Bowers
These albums by pianist/composer/singer Walt Harper aren"t new – Be My Guest was recorded in 1991, Gee Baby five years later – but they warrant an appraisal for at least two reasons: (1) good music, especially swinging jazz, is timeless; and (2) owing to the deplorable nature of the music business, Harper still has copies of ...
The Bob Florence Limited Edition: Whatever Bubbles Up
by Jack Bowers
Whenever master chef Bob Florence sets foot in the kitchen to slice and dice a new album, the listener can be sure that Whatever Bubbles Up will be as tantalizing and tasty as it is nourishing. Florence has been doing this sort of thing for more than four decades and knows how to put together a ...
The Jim Knapp Orchestra: Secular Breathing
by Jack Bowers
The cleverly titled Secular Breathing is the third recording by composer/arranger Jim Knapp's Seattle-area orchestra and arguably the best to date, thanks to Knapp's handsome and provocative charts, the presence of guest trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and the return of former JKO drummer Jon Wikan, who now lives in New York City. Knapp's richly textured arrangements lend ...
The Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE '02
by Jack Bowers
For more than two decades the Howard University Jazz Ensemble has affirmed its prowess with an annual recording, but HUJE ’02 is far more earnest and impassioned than the enterprises that preceded it. Recorded a little more than seven months after the world-shaking events of September 11, ’01, the album opens with an homage to the ...
Ren: Live at Jazz Standard
by Jack Bowers
Have you ever had someone say to you, “You really missed your calling”? Well, René Marie (no last name given, and none necessary) really did miss hers. Happily for René Marie and those who’ve heard her sing, either live or on record, she was able to find it. Better late than never. René Marie always wanted ...
Adi Braun: Delishious
by Jack Bowers
The debut album from Adi Braun, a talented young singer from Toronto, is, for the most part, Delishious. In fact, one of the few missteps was placing Shirley Eikhard’s “Crazy with the Heat” first, ahead of such gems as the Gershwin brothers’ amusing title song, Cy Coleman / Carolyn Leigh’s delightful “When in Rome” or one ...
The Abby & Norm Group: Melodic Miner's Daughter
by Jack Bowers
Melodic Miner’s Daughter, Abby and Norm Zocher’s second album on their own A to Z label, is smooth jazz in the best sense of the phrase; that is to say, smooth yet substantive. Even though for the most part airy and graceful, it’s designed not so much for radio air-play or popularity charts as for the ...
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