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The Stan Kenton Orchestra: Stompin' at Newport
by Jack Bowers
Today, more than four decades after the fact, the music on the Stan Kenton Orchestra’s memorable appearance at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival sounds as fresh and invigorating as ever, even though there is nothing on this long-overdue release from Pablo that Kenton fans won’t have heard perhaps hundreds of times on other occasions. From Bill ...
Craig Raymond and the Next Generation Big Band: It's Our Time
by Jack Bowers
If the name Craig Raymond sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because he’s the son of longtime Philadelphia bandleader Al Raymond, who recently retired and handed the reins to his trumpet-playing offspring (hence the name “Next Generation Band”). Stylistically, the band remains roughly the same, about equal parts jazz and dance music, but the younger Raymond keeps everyone ...
Beegie Adair: I'll Take Romance
by Jack Bowers
More late-evening mood music than jazz, I’ll Take Romance, the seventh album on the Green Hill label by Beegie Adair, showcases her warm piano stylings with a string-laden orchestra conducted by Jeff Steinberg. As Adair is based in Nashville, TN, hers may be a new name to many readers and / or listeners. Suffice to say ...
The Claude Bolling Big Band: Paris Swing
by Jack Bowers
Pianist / composer Claude Bolling, who has traveled all over the musical map from swing to classical and back during more than four decades as one of France’s most formidable performing artists, settles into a straight-ahead groove on Paris Swing. This record is a warmhearted hommage to French popular song that showcases his superb big band ...
Stan Kenton: With the Danish Radio Big Band
by Jack Bowers
In March 1966 Stan Kenton spent a week in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the invitation of Ib Glindemann, director of the New Dance Band of Radio Denmark (popularly known as the Danish Radio Big Band, now the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra). During that time he conducted the DRBB in concert at Copenhagen’s Radio Concert Hall. As a ...
The Orchestra: New Skies
by Jack Bowers
In his liner notes to this second album by The Orchestra, renowned composer / arranger / trombonist Bob Brookmeyer writes that the Copenhagen-based ensemble “performs one of the rare functions in music -- they play as if they love the music and each other, and they give life to the written page, the key element in ...
The Taylor / Fidyk Big Band: A Perfect Match
by Jack Bowers
This is the second album I’ve encountered that promised A Perfect Match, and both have made good on that unequivocal warranty. What is “matched” herein are the invigorating compositions and arrangements of Mark Taylor and a rip-roaring big band securely anchored by drummer Steve Fidyk and comprised mainly of personnel from two of the country’s leading ...
The Bob Mintzer Big Band: Gently
by Jack Bowers
Bob Mintzer, who is known to favor fiery Latin rhythms and big-band charts with an abundance of punch and power, has a softer side too, one that is laid bare on this understated but no less invigorating new release, his fourteenth (or fifteenth? I've lost count) on the dmp label. 'I think I've... reached a point,' ...
The Jan Kaspersen Special Occasion Band: Memo to the Moon
by Jack Bowers
Unfamiliar as I was with Jan Kaspersen, I hardly knew what to expect from a twelve-piece big band led by a Danish pianist who has studied jazz theory with George Russell, analyzed and recorded the music of classical composer Erik Satie, drafted compositions for Pierre Dorgé’s cutting-edge New Jungle Orchestra and led his own group under ...
The Jamie Begian Big Band: Trance
by Jack Bowers
I was introduced to Jamie Begian -- and to Begian’s New York-based big band -- last month during the 30th annual conference of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) in Toronto. Jamie also handed me a copy of his first album, Trance, which I must say is more impressive than I found the band to ...
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