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Wayne Bergeron: You Call This a Living?
by Jack Bowers
A rather slow summer for big-band albums has been redeemed in part by a number of trumpet-driven treasures -- Daniel Barry with Seattle's Jazz Police, Jon Faddis leading the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band, Carl Saunders' dynamic Be Bop Big Band and this terrific new release by Wayne Bergeron's battle-hardened crew of southern California heavyweights who ...
The Metropole Orchestra: The Chesterfield Arrangements / Kodachrome
by Jack Bowers
Raymond Scott's is a name I'd never associated with Jazz. After hearing these recent recordings by the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra of Scott's music from the mid-'30s through the late '50s, it still isn't. Lovely music, though, light years ahead of much of what is being unloaded on the public these days. Disc 1, The Chesterfield Arrangements, ...
David Weiss: Breathing Room
by Jack Bowers
The '60s are considered by many to have been a golden age of small-group Jazz, one that trumpeter David Weiss, making his debut as leader, and his quintet of up-and-coming young lions traverse again on Breathing Room, an album that shines its light on that earlier era without producing much heat. Weiss, whose forebears include Lee ...
The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra: SRJO Live
by Jack Bowers
I usually have mixed emotions about repertory Jazz orchestras. On the one hand, they're not playing anything I've not heard before; on the other, the music that comprises the very bedrock of Jazz certainly deserves to be heard again and again. I suppose that, when all is said and done, one's response to revisiting the music ...
Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day
by Jack Bowers
"There is plenty going on," designated cheerleader Stanley Crouch informs the reader, on composer / pianist Andrew Hill's latest album, A Beautiful Day, which showcases Hill's sixteen-piece big band in a concert performance last January at New York's famed Birdland nightclub. “With a vision given to great plasticity," Crouch writes, “[Hill] has found his own ways ...
Jiggs Whigham / Gene Bertoncini: The Heart and Soul of Hoagy Carmichael
by Jack Bowers
One great composer, two wonderful musicians, ten memorable songs — a fabulous idea on paper, but one in which the ingredients are sometimes tastier than the meal. Not that trombonist Jiggs Whigham and guitarist Gene Bertoncini are a less than charming and accomplished duo; on the contrary, they perform the songs of Hoagy Carmichael with an ...
The Wayne de Silva Quartet: First Morning
by Jack Bowers
The references to Joe Henderson in the liner notes to Wayne de Silva’s CD, First Morning, aren’t misplaced; the young tenor saxophonist often mirrors Henderson’s temperament, both in spirit and in substance. On the other hand, he’s definitely no clone, using Henderson’s substructure as a springboard for his fresh improvisational concepts. The similarities between them are ...
The Jonas Kullhammar Quartet: The Soul of Jonas Kullhammar
by Jack Bowers
Jonas Kullhammar, a young Rollins and Coltrane–inspired postbopper, bares his soul on this gregarious quartet session recorded without a net in July ’01 at the Glenn Miller Café (exact location unknown). Kullhammar, who was then twenty–three, wrote everything except Trane’s “Your Lady,” and his sunny compositions provide an excellent jumping–off point for tight group interaction and ...
The Magnus Broo Quartet: Levitation
by Jack Bowers
I’d heard and been impressed by Swedish trumpeter Magnus Broo on big–band dates but hadn’t run across him in a small–group setting until now. Broo’s quartet has been together for about four years, and Levitation is its second album; the first, Sudden Joy, was recorded live in 1999. Even though it’s a quartet, Broo’s snappish phrases, ...
Arne Fors: Where Is the Moon?
by Jack Bowers
There is some music (a lot of it, actually) about which I’m hardly qualified to advance an opinion. Usually, but not always, the music consists of melodies I’ve not heard before played by a single instrumentalist, as is the case with Where Is the Moon? by Swedish pianist Arne Forsén. Most of what Forsén plays is ...
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