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S: Living Now
by Jack Bowers
Danish guitarist Søren Lee summarizes the philosophy behind Living Now, his third album as leader, in a single sentence: “This music is a story told straight from my heart to everyone who cares to listen.” It’s an expansive story, at times compelling, at others beauteous, woven entirely from the threads of his musical resourcefulness (all of ...
The Karen Hammack / Paul Kreibich Quartet: Lonesome Tree
by Jack Bowers
In his liner notes to Lonesome Tree, Scott Yanow describes coleaders Karen Hammack and Paul Kreibich as “a pair of underrated talents who deserve to be much better known” — an observation that applies as well to countless other Jazz musicians both past and present. Even so, this is an admirable debut for the Hammack / ...
Marshall Vente Project 9: Marshall Law
by Jack Bowers
Marshall Law is comprised of eleven songs recorded during the past twenty years by groups assembled by the indefatigable Chicagobased bandleader / composer / arranger / entrepreneur Marshall Vente who not only has his own web site but his own record label, Jazz festival and radio program as well. Vente, who studied under David Matthews and ...
The Long Beach Poly High School Jazz Ensemble A: Moving Right Along
by Jack Bowers
Jazz education has not only reached many high schools in this country, it has lifted some of them to levels of excellence undreamed of only a few years ago. The kids are learning faster than ever, it seems, and if the pace continues it shouldn't be long before their expertise parallels that of collegelevel ensembles of ...
Frank Catalano: Pins 'n' Needles
by Jack Bowers
Babyfaced Frank Catalano, who looks barely old enough to shave, wields his razorsharp tenor saxophone like a machete on Pins ‘n’ Needles to slice and dice a trio of standards, three of his own compositions and Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple from the Apple,” ably supported by renowned trumpet master Randy Brecker (on three selections) and an incendiary ...
The Jazz Big Band Graz: Plays the Music of Bob Brookmeyer
by Jack Bowers
Now in his seventies, feisty Bob Brookmeyer has nothing to prove to anyone about his virtuosity as composer, arranger or valve trombonist - but he keeps on doing it anyway, ably supported in this instance by Germany's worldclass Jazz Big Band Graz. Brookmeyer, once a hardcore bopper who played with and wrote for the likes of ...
The USC Thornton School of Music: Studio Jazz Band 2000
by Jack Bowers
I'd have liked nothing better than to list the personnel on Studio Jazz Band 2000, but the album's graphics (small red type on black background) are so poorly conceived that doing so would have required a magnifying glass and the better part of a day, which was asking too much. Thankfully, that's about the only blemish ...
The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra: The Lights Suite
by Jack Bowers
A brief preamble: while spending last Thanksgiving with my wife’s sister and her family in Palo Alto, CA, I had the radio tuned to KCSMFM in San Mateo (a 24hour Jazz station, naturally) whose weekday noontime feature is an album played in its entirety without interruption. On this particular day the album chosen was by a ...
The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra: The Governor
by Jack Bowers
Nearly a third of this splendid album by the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, recorded in March 1999 at Copenhagen's JazzHouse, is devoted to “The Governor," conductor Niels Jørgen Steen's enterprising centenary salute to Edward Kennedy Ellington on which ensemble and soloists alike (nine in all) masterfully reanimate the enduring Ellington spirit. The other eleven selections were ...
David Berger and the Sultans of Swing: The Harlem Nutcracker
by Jack Bowers
Hearing The Harlem Nutcracker for the first time is akin to opening a Christmas present, expecting another drab necktie, and finding instead a silver-plated Swiss watch or 24-carat diamond bracelet.Composer / arranger / conductor David Berger has deftly assimilated and amplified Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn's luminous Nutcracker Suite, transposing Tchaikovsky's balletic themes into ...
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