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The African Jazz Pioneers: The Best Of
by Jack Bowers
It's always fascinating to hear how musicians from other countries have taken “America's music" - Jazz - and adapted it to suit their ethnic and cultural heritage. This is especially true when one considers the music of Africa, one of the primary wellsprings of Jazz's syncopated rhythmic patterns. Rhythm is what African ensembles are about, an ...
Steve Rochinski: A Bird in the Hand
by Jack Bowers
Bostonbased Steve Rochinski soars well above the commonplace with A Bird in the Hand, a wellcrafted studio session that elicits a series of remarkable statements from the guitarist and his teammates. Rochinski is clearly a worldclass player with immaculate technique, freeflowing ideas and an unwavering propensity to swing under any and all conditions. While Rochinski seems ...
Mikole E. Kaar: A Fifth of Midnight
by Jack Bowers
If they could have seen far enough ahead, Mikole E. Kaar’s parents — who seem to have had a flair for names — might have called him Mikole V — the v, of course, for “versatile.” On A Fifth of Midnight, his debut album as leader, Kaar plays tenor sax on five tracks, clarinet and bassoon ...
The Polizeiorchester Hamburg: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong
by Jack Bowers
One of the highest compliments I can pay the Poleiziorchester Hamburg is to say the ensemble reminds me of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass. The charts are dissimilar, as one would expect on a tribute to Louis Armstrong, but there's the same aura of understated elegance and casual selfassurance that one hears from the Brass, as director ...
The Matt Savage Trio: All Jazzed Up
by Jack Bowers
All Jazzed Up is the third album by pianist Matt Savage. Nothing too remarkable about that, one must concede — but give the kid a break, he's only nine years old! Matt had been playing piano for all of three years when this date was recorded for an enthusiastic audience at the Deertrees Theatre in Harrison, ...
The RIAS Big Band Berlin: Bach Brandt New
by Jack Bowers
Who’d have suspected that Johann Sebastian Bach, who died more than 250 years ago, would be making such a strong comback in the twentyfirst century, and in a Jazz context, no less? But here we have the venerated maestro, resurrected first in Bach 2000, an excellent album by David Matthews and the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, and ...
Lance Buller and the Monarchs: Hipsters' Paradise
by Jack Bowers
More nouveau swing courtesy of Pony Boy Records, one of the West Coast’s leading purveyors of same. The headliners this time around are trumpeter / vocalist Lance Buller and the Monarchs who pay the usual respects to the “three Louis” (Armstrong, Jordan, Prima) while adding a few spices of their own to the mix and even ...
The University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One: Leap of Faith
by Jack Bowers
Whenever a swimmer or runner shaves a couple hundredths of a second off some world record or another I can't help but think, “Is there no limit? How fast can they go?" And as I listen to some of today's toplevel university Jazz ensembles a similar thought intrudes - “Is there no limit? How well can ...
The Empire Jazz Orchestra: Live and Kickin' / The EJO Plays Ellington
by Jack Bowers
The Empire Jazz Orchestra, founded in 1992, is a professional Jazz repertory ensemble in residence at Schenectady County (NY) Community College. These high-powered albums, the first featuring guest artist Mark Vinci on alto saxophone, the second embracing appearances by tenor saxophonist Leo Russo and poll-winning baritone Nick Brignola, were recorded in 1999 during concerts spaced roughly ...
H.B. Radke & the Jet City Swingers: Live!
by Jack Bowers
This is hardly Jazz, but like much of the neoswing music being heard these days, it’s a lot of fun. The album cover says Live!, so we’ll have to concede the point, even though it’s hard to tell whether the “audience” is real or electronically created. Whichever the case, the applause is wellearned, as H.B. Radke ...
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