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Jim Manley: Splendor in the Brass
by Jack Bowers
When Jim Manley was in high school his band director and fellow trumpeter, Ed Levinsky, introduced him via records to many of the Jazz world's leading players including one who made an indelible impression that hasn't yet been erased. Manley was blown away by high""note maestro Maynard Ferguson and decided that was the road he wanted ...
Peter Welker: Paradise Is Awfully Nice
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter / arranger Peter Welker has dedicated this album to his mother, Elisabeth, a remarkable woman who, in spite of having been born blind, became a band singer who performed on the coast--to--coast radio program Camel Caravan in the '30s, later taught at the Berklee School of Music and developed a Braille course that changed completely ...
Dan Radlauer / Ira B. Liss and the Big Band Jazz Machine: Symphomaniacs
by Jack Bowers
Symphomaniacs is the third album by the San Diego–based Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, the first devoted to works by a single composer, keyboardist Dan Radlauer. Coincidentally, it’s also the best, thanks not only to Radlauer’s arresting charts but to the stellar contributions of guest artists Eric Marienthal, Wayne Bergeron, Bill Armstrong, Dan Higgins ...
The University of Toronto 10 O'Clock Jazz Orchestra: Off the Cuff
by Jack Bowers
The second recording by the University of Toronto's well·upholstered 10 O'Clock Jazz Orchestra is an uncommonly bright and burnished two·disc symposium, the first half of which is devoted entirely to the music of composer / arranger / pianist Jim McNeely. When one considers that the university's Jazz Performance Degree was established little more than a decade ...
The Nova Jazz Orchestra: Ireland
by Jack Bowers
So where have these guys been hiding? In the “Shamrock Room” at O’Gara’s Bar and Grill in St. Paul, MN? If you’re in the neighborhood, make a reservation! We’re only half–serious; as this is big–band Jazz, the chances are that reservations won’t be necessary. But a trip to O’Gara’s to hear the Nova Jazz Orchestra in ...
Eugene Maslov: When I Need to Smile / The Face of Love
by Jack Bowers
Two first–rate albums by classically trained Russian emigré Eugene Maslov whose technical prowess is equaled only by his fondness for American Jazz. The first features Maslov’s trio (bassist Eddie Gomez, drummer Omar Hakim) all the way, the second a trio (or trios) with guests Shirley Horn and Toots Thielemans added on two selections apiece. When I ...
Jack Wilkins: Ridge Lines
by Jack Bowers
A pity that musicians this talented have to produce their own albums, even though this one by tenor saxphonist Jack Wilkins and his companions was made possible in part by a Research and Creative Scholarship award from the University of South Florida where he is a member of the Music School’s faculty, as, I presume, is ...
Carl Fontana / Jiggs Whigham / The Stefan Karlsson Trio: Keepin' Up with the Boneses
by Jack Bowers
This is the second album for TNC Jazz by trombone masters Carl Fontana and Jiggs Whigham with the Stefan Karlsson Trio, and like the first, Nice ‘n’ Easy (1997), it merits comment but is really beyond criticism except to note that there are one or two times when the rhythm section seems overly emphatic and that ...
The Rocky Winslow Quartet & Guests: Simple Complications
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter Rocky Winslow’s debut as leader is an enterprising album of assertive post–bop Jazz that is undeniably well–played but sounds much like many other enterprising albums of assertive post–bop Jazz. While almost every track is admirable, none is memorable. Winslow, who wrote five of the eight numbers that comprise the album and solos on all of ...
The Marvin Stamm Quartet: Elegance
by Jack Bowers
The “invisible man” returns. Trumpeter Marvin Stamm, who played with big bands led by Woody Herman, Stan Kenton and Thad Jones / Mel Lewis, among others, before vanishing in the early ’70s into the wilderness of studio work in New York City, is playing Jazz again — has been for some time now — and that ...
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