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Lars Jansson: Ballads
by Jack Bowers
This is basically a trio album, but not completely; comprised of ballads by Swedish piano master Lars Jansson, but not completely. Songs like “The Tree,” “To the Mothers in Brazil” and “Something To Eat” may be ballads in the broadest sense of the word but their brisker tempos belie the image. And the trio becomes a ...
St: Dancing
by Jack Bowers
Dancing (Dragon) Ståhls Blå starts on the wrong foot with the strident “Blues för Mor” and takes considerable time to regain its balance (which it never fully does). Dragon Records, which can usually be counted on to send enjoyable CDs for review, seems to have slipped up this time. That’s not to say that others may ...
Claire Daly: Movin' On
by Jack Bowers
Who’d have bet that Jeru’s lineal successor would be a woman? I’m not saying Claire Daly sounds like or even emulates Mulligan; she doesn’t. But she’s closer to him in spirit than anyone I’ve heard since Gerry left us in January ’96 (has it really been that long?). Comparisons aside, Daly is clearly one of the ...
The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra & Jim McNeely: Play Bill Evans
by Jack Bowers
As Jim McNeely observes in the liner notes, the late Bill Evans’ reputation as a great Jazz pianist overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a composer, an oversight the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra seeks to redress by repositioning seven of Evans’ graceful melodies in a big–band framework (with a medley comprised of bassist Scott LaFaro’s “Gloria’s Step” ...
The Scott Gwinnell Jazz Orchestra: Basement Vibes
by Jack Bowers
Pianist Scott Gwinnell’s music is ambitious, which is not the same as impersonal or boring — but it does require one’s earnest consideration, as the wandering mind may overlook some of the myriad small gems that brighten each of his well–drawn charts. Gwinnell arranged every song on Basement Vibes and wrote five of them including the ...
The Mingus Big Band: Tonight at Noon . . .
by Jack Bowers
Tonight at Noon . . . (Dreyfus Jazz) Don't be misled by album's the title: love, as seen through the eyes of Charles Mingus, wasn't always sugar and spice and everything nice. In fact, it could be downright nasty. Several of the many faces of love are represented on Tonight at Noon in a series of ...
Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra: Consummation
by Jack Bowers
This charming reissue from 1970 makes it even harder to accept the fact that Thad and Mel are no longer with us. Thank goodness we have such glorious music to remember them by. All of the compositions and arrangements are Jones,' and each one is an unpretentious classic of its kind. The orchestra itself is beyond ...
Stan Kenton: Sketches on Standards
by Jack Bowers
Like Portraits on Standards, which was released earlier by Capitol / Blue Note, Sketches is by and large an eleborate showcase for several of the wonderful soloists who earned their reputations with Stan Kenton’s pace–setting orchestra in the early ’50s when these recordings were made. As on Portraits, most of the arrangements are by Bill (now ...
The SWR Big Band / Bill Holman: Jazz in Concert
by Jack Bowers
A friend told me this album was a reissue of one released nearly a decade ago (IRS 986.987), and at first glance he would seem to be right, as there are striking similarities in the artwork, choice of repertoire (the nine selections are identical, although the playing order is slightly dissimilar) and soloists (exactly the same ...
The Brigham Phillips Big Band: And It Really Was
by Jack Bowers
Another world–class big band? Yes, it really is — and this one’s from Toronto, Canada, home of the renowned Boss Brass, several of whose alumni are on hand to make sure the phrase “world–class” is entirely appropriate. Commander–in–chief Brigham Phillips, who moved to Toronto from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1981, says he’d been planning the album ...
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