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The Mike Vax Big Band: Live... On the Road
by Jack Bowers
For anyone who missed the “big band era” and is wondering what all the fuss was about, the Mike Vax Big Band’s Live . . . On the Road should be required listening. In a more enlightened world it would be the music of choice for many others as well, but we’ll let that pass. Suffice ...
Mike Fahn: Close Your Eyes... and Listen
by Jack Bowers
I first heard valve trombonist Mike Fahn some years ago on an album led by the wonderful tenor saxophonist Bob Cooper and was duly impressed. “There’s a player to watch," I said to myself. Great chops, lovely sound, quick reflexes, singular voice. Been watching ever since but apart from occasional appearances as a sideman on others’ ...
The Dino & Franco Piana Jazz Orchestra: Interplay for 20
by Jack Bowers
In reviewing an earlier album ( Conversation ) by Dino and Franco Piana, I’d made the assumption that they were brothers -- but after reading the notes and seeing the photos in the booklet accompanying Interplay for 20 I realized that they are father (Dino) and son (Franco). Either way, they make a terrific team, and ...
Stan Getz: Affinity
by Jack Bowers
Talk about spontaneity. The material that comprises Affinity was taped a quarter-century ago by Stan Getz’s brother-in-law, bassist Peter Silfverskjöld, during an after-supper jam session at the Silfverskjöold home -- and was never intended for commercial release. “I had borrowed a deck tape-recorder, which I left on during the session,” Peter writes in ...
The Rick Brunetto Big Band: Stand Up and Swing
by Jack Bowers
What we have here is a dance band, and a pretty decent one, from Denison, Ohio. Stand Up and Swing, recorded six years ago, is essentially a showcase for vocalists Kelly McLennan, Brian Michael Smith and Dwight Lenox, as drummer Rick Brunetto’s band backs one of them on seven of the eleven selections. ...
Weekend of Jazz: A Capital Idea
by Jack Bowers
Last December’s column on the depressing condition of big-band Jazz in this country has drawn a second positive response, this one from Derek Maddox of Beavercreek, OH, a suburb of Dayton, who writes in part: “Like many growing communities we face the challenge of maintaining a quality school system. Some years ago it became apparent that ...
Cecil Hill: Swings His Thing
by Jack Bowers
Cecil Hill’s name is new to me, but if one is measured by the company he keeps, Mr. Hill must rate high in anyone’s book. While the music he “swings” is unequivocal Swing Era fare (and beyond) designed mainly for dancing, Hill has enlisted the services of such renowned players as (the late) trumpeter Conte Candoli, ...
The Jacobs Brothers: Jazz Standard Time
by Jack Bowers
I can provide no background on the Jacobs brothers, but I can tell you that they are an exceedingly talented trio, that their first album together was produced with no rehearsal, and that Dan -- he’s the brother who plays the trumpet -- has listened closely to Conte Candoli, Chet Baker, Tom Harrell, Carmell Jones and ...
Anna Callahan: My Ideal
by Jack Bowers
There aren’t many musicians who can do as many things as well as Anna Callahan. And she’s young and pretty too! Callahan not only sings and plays trumpet and flugelhorn, she wrote or co- wrote five of the eleven songs on her debut album, My Ideal, and arranged them all. If I say ...
The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
by Jack Bowers
The fourth in the Dutch Jazz Orchestra’s series of albums devoted to songs composed and/or arranged by Billy Strayhorn focuses primarily on music written by Strayhorn for the theatre, beginning with the few surviving pieces from the concise show Fantastic Rhythm, produced around 1935, shortly after Strayhorn was graduated from high school. Also included are four ...
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