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Aaron Goldberg: Unfolding
by Jack Bowers
I’ve heard a number of masterful young pianists recently, and here’s another one. Like any perceptive keyboard artist, Aaron Goldberg writes poetry with his fingertips, evoking the same feelings of warmth and desire, sadness and joy that are common to the written or spoken word. Unfolding, Goldberg’s second J Curve album, consists of seven of his ...
The Bernard Primeau Jazz Ensemble: Virage / Un Souffl
by Jack Bowers
Two high–powered studio sessions (from 1997 and last November) presided over by Canadian drummer Bernard Primeau, the first of which is enhanced by the prolific talents of American trombonist Ray Anderson. The second, Un Soufflé Latin (whose name speaks for itself, even in French), represents a comeback of sorts, as Primeau was diagnosed in 1998 with ...
The Vic Lewis West Coast All-Stars: With Love to Gerry
by Jack Bowers
If by “All--Stars" Vic Lewis means a world--class rhythm section backing three superb front--liners, then he's squarely on the mark, as With Love to Gerry (Mulligan, of course) embodies exactly that. There are two exceptions, the opening “Noblesse," performed by an a cappella “trombone choir" (actually, Andy Martin overdubbed), and the luminous “Ballade," handsomely shaped by ...
John Stein: Portraits and Landscapes
by Jack Bowers
Here’s an album that definitely lives up to its name, as guitarist John Stein and his colleagues paint a series of exquisite “pictures in sound,” all but one of which were written by Stein himself. The exception is the standard “Moonlight in Vermont,” given a pleasurable ride by Stein’s working trio (bassist Keala Kaumeheiwa, drummer Greg ...
Terell Stafford: Fields of Gold
by Jack Bowers
Although trained nurses, qualified schoolteachers and genuinely funny TV sitcoms may be scarce these days, there’s certainly no shortage of talented young Jazz trumpeters. Roy Hargrove, Terrence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Ryan Kisor, Wallace Roney, Jim Rotondi, Russell Gunn, Ingrid Jensen, Scott Wendholt, Marcus Printup, Randy Sandke, Joe Magnarelli — the list is almost as long as ...
Wycliffe Gordon: The Search
by Jack Bowers
Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, who has been honing his chops of late with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, puts them to exceedingly good use on his second impressive album in a row for Germany’s splendid Nagel–Heyer label. Gordon has to be on his toes, as he’s pushed hard on a number of selections by his invited guests, ...
Mundell Lowe / Hendrik Meurkens: Mundell's Moods
by Jack Bowers
Does guitarist Mundell Lowe ever have moods that are less than agreeable? Surely he must — but not on this album. Here, Mundell’s Moods are consistently sunny and upbeat, designed to put a smile on anyone’s face and a spring in his or her step. Even the ballads (“Darn That Dream,” “Body and Soul”) seem more ...
Lalo Schifrin: Jazz Goes to Hollywood
by Jack Bowers
First, a round of applause to Lalo Schifrin for having introduced Jazz into so many of his film scores over the years. A number of his charming and well–crafted soundtrack themes have become best–selling hits for such Jazz artists as Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery and George Benson, which is a remarkable phenomenon in light of the ...
Bud Brisbois: Rocket Man - In Memoray of Bud Brisbois 1937-1978
by Jack Bowers
Jazz Journal International, one of the several overseas magazines to which I subscribe, carries a fairly regular column entitled “The Forgotten Ones," wherein are biographical sketches of musicians who were celebrated in their day but have long since been consigned to the back roads of history. They've not yet profiled the late Bud Brisbois, but they ...
Rick Henly: Love Like Fire
by Jack Bowers
Love Like Fire is a wonderful showcase for trumpeter Rick Henley’s talents, which are many. Henly, who has been playing trumpet at least since age eight, we are told in the liner notes, can do almost anything he wants with a horn — except play Jazz. To his credit, he seldom tries, leaving most of the ...
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