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The Texas Christian University Jazz Ensemble: Classic Mix
by Jack Bowers
Another first–class college–level Jazz Studies program (what else is new?), this one deep in the heart of Texas and making wonderful music on the third album we’ve heard under the baton of long–time director Curt Wilson. The TCU Jazz Ensemble is bolstered on “Everybody Loves My Baby” by the presence of pianist Shelly Berg and trombonist ...
The University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One: West Coasting
by Jack Bowers
West Coasting is, happily, another top–of–the–line album by the University of Northern Iowa’s superb Jazz Band One (its eleventh in the past eleven years), but, unhappily, its last under long–time director Bob Washut who is stepping aside after twenty–two years at the helm. UNI has risen under Washut’s guidance to a position as one of the ...
The Dan McMillion Jazz Orchestra: Up Your Brass
by Jack Bowers
Sound the trumpets! Dan McMillion’s explosive Florida–based Jazz Orchestra is back with another colorful scrapbook of straight–ahead big–band Jazz sketched in the image of his main men, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich and Woody Herman (if one must have role models he may as well choose the best). McMillion’s Maynard–like high–note trumpet, which produces sparks throughout the ...
Bruce Abbott and the North Star Jazz Ensemble: Mistletoe Sax
by Jack Bowers
Listening to this seasonal mélange by saxophonist Bruce Abbott and the North Star Jazz Ensemble (supported by the Hawthorne String Quartet), the word “pleasant” springs to mind. The liner notes portray the album as a “collection of beloved holiday chestnuts” that is “richly romantic, slightly nostalgic and entirely engaging,” and I can’t think of a more ...
Various Artists: A Bowl of Merry: Music for Holiday Joy and Celebration
by Jack Bowers
There’s not much Jazz in this motley Bowl of Merry, but there is an abundance of delightful holiday music from a number of well–endowed groups of various shapes, sizes and forms. As Jazz is my bailiwick I’d not heard of any of them, but must say they are quite good at what they do, which is ...
Chuck Clark: Little Big Band
by Jack Bowers
It’s hard to determine the exact size of tenor saxophonist Chuck Clark’s Little Big Band, as the booklet contains two lists, one for “musicians” (ten names, which would make it a tentet), another for “additional musicians” (five names but with no information about the number of selections on which any or all of them play). Clark, ...
Conte Candoli: Live at Birdland Neuberg
by Jack Bowers
Conte Candoli had many loves in his life, especially wife Kristen, their “menagerie” (four cats, two dogs, three desert tortoises, assorted chickens and a pond full of fish, turtles and frogs) and a modest but charming home in Palm Springs, CA. Most of all, Conte loved to play the trumpet and would go almost anywhere to ...
Various Artists: Swingin' Christmas Party!
by Jack Bowers
A hearty mid–price bowl of holiday cheer served up by eleven celebrated big bands and one irrepressible prankster, Thomas “Fats” Waller, courtesy of the bounteous RCA Bluebird vaults, repository of some of the more memorable music from the swing and big–band eras. Several of the themes on offer should be quite familiar to those with more ...
The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: Trench Heroes / Monday in the City
by Jack Bowers
These two albums, recorded three years apart, provide at least a cursory glance at the continuing development of San Francisco’s aptly named Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. Trench Heroes was taped in ’98 during a “road gig” at Yoshi’s nightclub across the Bay bridge in Oakland, CA, Monday in the City last December on the orchestra’s “home field,” ...
David Gibson: Maya
by Jack Bowers
Trombonist David Gibson makes an auspicious impression on Maya, his handsome tone and superior technique summoning thoughts of the late great J.J. Johnson and a couple of Gibson’s primary influences, Curtis Fuller and Slide Hampton. As one expects from Nagel Heyer, the music is solidly in the mainstream with half a dozen well–framed compositions by Gibson ...
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