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Lisa Kelly & the J.B. Scott 5-Tet: Memories of Tomorrow
by Jack Bowers
To paraphrase the claim once made by a well–known airline, Lisa Kelly loves to sing — and it shows. She’s clearly a Jazz singer too, altering melody, phrasing and tempo and scatting occasionally on Memories of Tomorrow to lend each song an invigorating new slant. Much as Kelly loves to sing, however, she graciously steps aside ...
Richard Simon: Pacific Standard Time
by Jack Bowers
If one harbors any doubt that there is life after seventy (or even eighty!) — and an abundance of swinging Jazz to be produced by those who’ve reached those plateaus — he or she need only listen attentively to bassist Richard Simon’s Pacific Standard Time to erase any such misgivings. While Simon himself is a (relatively) ...
Patrice Williamson: Free to Dream
by Jack Bowers
You want to hear beautiful music? Go directly to Track 4 on Patrice Williamson’s latest album, Free to Dream, and listen to Rodgers and Hart’s “With a Song in My Heart” — irresistibly melodic and outspokenly tender, the way a love song should be written (and sung). I’d never before heard the introduction to this masterpiece ...
Orbert Davis: Priority
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter Orbert Davis may have let the cat out of the bag with Priority, an album that is almost sure to blow his cover as one of the Chicago area"s best-kept secrets. Davis, who has recorded before with strings and voices and as a member of William Russo's Chicago Jazz Ensemble, unleashes the full arsenal on ...
Ben Allison: Peace Pipe
by Jack Bowers
The kora, an African stringed instrument that sounds much like an Indian sitar or Persian santour, lends a tantalizing exotic flavor to bassist Ben Allison’s latest album, Peace Pipe, his fourth as leader for Palmetto Records. In the capable hands of Malian virtuoso Mamadou Diabate, the kora is more than a novelty but an integral part ...
Rosengren / Nor: Inside Pictures: A Tribute to Lars Gullin, Vol. 2
by Jack Bowers
Lars Gullin, as some of you may know, played baritone sax. More than that, the legendary Swede was, in this writer’s opinion, one of the greatest baritone saxophonists who ever lived. Difficult as it is to comprehend a tribute to Gullin with no baritone in sight, we must accept this album for what it is — ...
The Torbj: K
by Jack Bowers
One must concede that there’s an ample amount of innovative Jazz issuing forth from Scandinavia these days. From Sweden (I think) come bassist Torbjörn Zetterberg and his Hot Five, who can best be described as enthusiastic champions of an explicitly contemporary style of Jazz that often approaches the precipice of cacophonous disarray but never quite topples ...
The San Diego Concert Jazz Band: What a Gas!
by Jack Bowers
This is the first time I’ve had the pleasure of hearing the San Diego Concert Jazz Band, and it’s a quite respectable community–based group, even though What a Gas! sounds as though it could have been recorded during a rehearsal. Although there is an audience (whose applause is often excised), everything seems rather ad hoc, down ...
The San Diego Concert Jazz Band: At Dizzy's
by Jack Bowers
Our second encounter with the San Diego Concert Jazz Band and this one’s a step upward. Still sounds as though it were taped during a rehearsal, and again there are no liner notes, but unlike the earlier album, What a Gas!, the personnel are listed — and the soloists too! Their names (and the name of ...
The Pierce College Jazz Ensemble: The Weekly Dance / Pierced Ears
by Jack Bowers
I first heard the Pierce College Jazz Ensemble at the IAJE Conference in Long Beach, CA, in January 2001 and was quite impressed, enough so to ask director Norm Wallen to keep me in mind for reviews if the ensemble were to record any CDs. After sending a master of the band’s performance at the conference, ...
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