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Marcelle Gauvin: The Edge of the Pond
by Jack Bowers
Another fine young singer enters what has suddenly become an overcrowded arena with a large number of newcomers striving to become the next Ella, Sarah or Billie. Diana Krall, mostly by virtue of her blonde good looks and sultry demeanor, is the current front-runner among the younger set with Jane Monheit receiving a lot of attention, ...
David Hazeltine: The Classic Trio Meets Eric Alexander
by Jack Bowers
While this is his first meeting with the Classic Trio, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander is no stranger to two of its members, having performed with pianist David Hazeltine in the New York-based co-op sextet One for All and with bassist Peter Washington on Alexander's recent albums, The First Milestone and The Second Milestone, among other dates. ...
Daniel Barry: Red Fish Blue Fish
by Jack Bowers
Seattle-based composer / trumpeter Daniel Barry, whom we first encountered in a big-band setting, leads a talented octet through its paces on Red Fish Blue Fish, which encompasses eleven of his colorful compositions / arrangements and one ("Chemo Receptor") by drummer Chris Monroe. This is bracing contemporary Jazz, shrewdly written for and dexterously performed by the ...
Mark Colby: Tenor Reference
by Jack Bowers
There are a great many talented post-bop tenor saxophonists on the scene today, but no more than a handful whom one could easily recognize in a lineup. Here's one -- Mark Colby, a consistently resourceful stylist who's not more widely known among Jazz cognoscenti only because he has chosen to make Chicago his home instead of ...
Dave Riekenberg: Never Too Late
by Jack Bowers
Another well-upholstered album of contemporary straight-ahead Jazz that gives absolutely no cause for complaint but fewer reasons than one might expect to become excited. Its title, Never Too Late, is an appropriate metaphor for tenor Dave Riekenberg's long-overdue debut as leader of his own quartet after years on the road with Woody Herman's orchestra and Blood, ...
The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Big Band: Things to Come
by Jack Bowers
So who needs the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band anyway? Jon Faddis, whose whose widely acclaimed CHJB has been shown the door by the powers that be (its last concert will be presented this month at the Hollywood Bowl), has landed on his feet--and how!--as music director of the aptly-named Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band. If ...
The Terry Gibbs Dream Band: One More Time
by Jack Bowers
To paraphrase Maurice Chevalier's earnest anthem in the film Gigi, “Thank heaven for little pack rats!" Just when we'd almost given up hope of ever hearing anything new from the fabulous Terry Gibbs Dream Band of the late '50s-early '60s, TG came across eleven boxes of tapes on the top shelf of a closet marked “Big ...
Bob Curnow & the SWR Big Band: Towednack
by Jack Bowers
After hearing Bob Curnow's wonderful Celtic-inspired big-band composition, “Towednack," introduced at a convention of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) several years ago in Anaheim, CA, I hurried to the Sierra Music Publications booth in the exhibition hall (where I knew I'd find him) to applaud the composer. “Absolutely brilliant!" I gushed, or words to ...
The Gene Harris Superband: Big Band Soul
by Jack Bowers
This admirable two-disc reissue encompasses two colorful albums recorded more than a decade ago by the late pianist Gene Harris and his star-laden Superband, Live at Town Hall, NYC (1989) and World Tour 1990. As one who owns both earlier albums I'd have no reason to part with any hard-earned cash for this one, but those ...
The N'Euro Jazz Band: Swing for a Dream
by Jack Bowers
The N'Euro Jazz Band is actually a French ensemble looking for a wider audience, hence its more inclusive name. Composed of “musicians amateurs et talenteux," it is patterned after that country's most enduring and successful big band, the one led by pianist Claude Bolling. With two exceptions -- Bolling's “The Bankers" and “Dors Bonhomme" -- the ...
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