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Joel Kaye and His Neophonic Jazz Orchestra: Live at Vartan Jazz, Vol. 2
by Jack Bowers
Bandleader Stan Kenton and his chief arranger, Johnny Richards, constructed formidable sound-castles in the ’50s and ’60s. Those pieces and others are given a fresh coat of paint by Joel Kaye’s marvelous 24-piece Neophonic Jazz Orchesta in this dynamic concert appearance, recorded in February ’01 at Vartan Tonoian’s (now-shuttered) Jazz Club in Denver, CO. While Kenton ...
Virginia Commonwealth University Jazz: It Could Happen to You
by Jack Bowers
This is the fifth album produced by the twenty-two-year-old Jazz Studies program at Richmond’s Virginia Commonwealth University, the first under the direction of Antonio Garcia, who came to VCU from Northwestern University a couple of years ago. The award-winning Jazz Orchestra I, which performs on the first eight of the album’s dozen tracks, plays well as ...
The Ed Wilson Big Band: Song for Joel
by Jack Bowers
This is the second album I’ve heard by trombonist Ed Wilson’s world-class big band from Down Under. That earlier outing ( Up the Pace ) was quite good; Song for Joel is (on the whole) even better, which speaks well for Wilson and his mates, who comprise a number of Australia’s most respected sidemen. Wilson, who ...
The Paris Jazz Big Band:
by Jack Bowers
Big bands, we in the lower forty-eight are often told, are dead -- news that apparently hasn’t reached Canada, Europe and some areas of the Far East where big bands are not only very much alive, but stronger and more resilient than ever. Germany and Japan are especially well-stocked, and almost every country in Europe (including ...
The Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: A Year in the Life of the Band...
by Jack Bowers
As the great Sinatra once sang, “It was a very good year...” While 2001 was hardly trouble-free for the Knoxville (TN) Jazz Orchestra, the band was able to raise enough money during that time to underwrite a two-week European tour. The KJO appeared at France’s Jazz à Vienne and Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival and was able ...
Bobby Medina: Holiday Magic
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter Bobby Medina and the Cosmopolitan Pops Orchestra serve up more than fifty minutes of cheerful Holiday Magic, spiced with clever arrangements and bright vocals by Greta Matassa (“Winter Wonderland,” “Merry Christmas,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”) and Gary Lanz (“The Christmas Song”). The music is Jazzy to a point, but more akin to the ...
Rich Wetzel's Groovin' Higher Jazz Orchestra: Live!
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter Rich Wetzel may be leading a pretty darned good big band out on the left coast in Tacoma, WA, but it’s hard to say for sure, as the evidence on the band’s second album, Live!, suggests that the microphones may have been inadvertently placed somewhere north of Seattle. We exaggerate, of course, to make a ...
Ted Heath and His Music: Nice One Ted!
by Jack Bowers
Here’s a delightful mix of big-band Jazz, dance music and assorted odds and ends from 1948-51, courtesy of Great Britain’s longest-lived and most honored orchestra: Ted Heath and His Music. The album’s twenty-five selections comprise a number of standards from the Great American Songbook, Latin and European melodies, novelty tunes (“Rag Mop,” “Tequila,” “Post Horn Boogie”) ...
Dalia Faitelson: Point of No Return
by Jack Bowers
Everyone, I suppose, has his or her “point of no return.” I reached mine rather quickly while auditioning this new album by singer / guitarist Dalia Faitelson’s septet. After the opening track, which definitely lives up to its name (“Wreack, Cracked, Crazy”), I clung to the hope that matters might eventually improve, and indeed they did ...
Hoover High School: Hoover Jazz 2002 / Hoover Combo Jazz 2002
by Jack Bowers
It takes only a few moments to realize that Glendale, California's Hoover High School isn’t home to your average garden-variety Jazz ensemble. “Epiphany,” the opening track on Hoover Jazz 2002, is a dazzling two-minute disquisition by bass guitarist Nick Klingenberg, followed by Regina Carter’s percussive “Mandingo St.” (featuring cellist Rachel Arnold, horn player Jason Thoms, vocalist ...
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