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The University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2002
by Jack Bowers
The University of North Texas at Denton, home to the country’s oldest and most honored Jazz Studies program, has a number of excellent jazz ensembles, the cream of which is its One O’Clock Lab Band, here represented in the latest of a series of annual recordings that began nearly half a century ago. Since that time ...
Terry Blaine: Lonesome Swallow
by Jack Bowers
One of the problems in reviewing an album as thoroughly and unexpectedly wonderful as Lonesome Swallow is that one hardly knows where to begin when parceling out praise and approval. Terry Blaine’s vocals? Irresistible. Pianist Mark Shane’s accompaniment? Brilliant. Tom Desisto / Julie Last’s recording, editing and mixing? Superlative. Blaine’s choice of material? Impeccable. And that’s ...
The Geoff Cooke Quintet: See You at the Bridge
by Jack Bowers
Whenever a bassist leads a quintet recording one of two things is possible: he is either (a) smarter or (b) dumber than the other players. I don’t know Geoff Cooke’s I.Q. but his credentials are quite impressive -- B.S. in music from the University of Colorado (Cooke hails from Denver), classes with Reggie Workman at the ...
Mark Gould and Friends: The Unsuspecting Moment
by Jack Bowers
There are no losers here. That this album was recorded at all is a triumph, as leader / tenor saxophonist Mark Gould was almost killed in a house fire about a year before the session was held. That it turned out as well as it has is a tribute to Gould and his talented friends from ...
The Keith Javors Quartet: From Here to the Street
by Jack Bowers
Pianist Keith Javors, who is now an assistant professor of Jazz Studies at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, recorded this set of his original compositions more than three years ago in Marquette, Michigan, with “deep gratitude and respect to [his] musical heroes: Benny Green, Mulgrew Miller, Herbie Hancock and the late Kenny Kirkland.” Javors, ...
Buddy Tate: Tate Live
by Jack Bowers
From the moment in 1983 when he heard Buddy Tate play with fellow “Texas tenors” Illinois Jacquet, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Arnett Cobb at the Berlin Philharmonic, drummer Torsten Zwingenberger knew he wanted Tate to tour and possibly record with his band. After a number of setbacks, this lively concert date at the Quasimodo in Berlin ...
Hilary Noble: Noble Savage
by Jack Bowers
One has to admire the energy that is poured so lavishly into many albums of Afro-Cuban Jazz. Noble Savage bristles with vitality as it explores the many facets of Caribbean-influenced music, with side trips to Australia, home of saxophonist / conguero Hilary Noble’s forebears, and New Orleans. Much of that firepower springs from drummer / percussionist ...
The Florida Community College Jazz Ensemble 1: Jazz from 11901 Beach Boulevard
by Jack Bowers
After listening to this splendid album by the Florida Community College Jazz Ensemble 1, I regret more than ever having missed the band’s performance at this year’s IAJE conference in Toronto -- but one can’t hear everything. On a brighter note, I was at least able to “take the ensemble home” to appreciate at my leisure ...
The Chad Lawson Trio: Dear Dorothy: The Oz Sessions
by Jack Bowers
The future isn't always as bleak as it so often appears. Amid the welter of rubbish that passes for music these days one can occasionally discern a refreshing ray of sunshine. Here's one--music from MGM's film classic The Wizard of Oz, handsomely arranged and marvelously played by three talented young musicians from North Carolina. The idea ...
The Future Is Now
by Jack Bowers
Like Meredith Willson’s fictional Professor Harold Hill, Sonny LaRosa is a “music man,” a modern-day pied piper who takes untrained kids and molds them into a community band. Unlike the smooth-talking Professor Hill, however, LaRosa actually knows something about music, having played trumpet since age ten and mastered several other instruments including piano, guitar, trombone, saxophones, ...
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