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Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble: Aftermath
by Jack Bowers
As last year’s debut album by pianist Mike Long’s NYSAJE was labeled Explosion, it’s entirely appropriate that its second enterprise should be dubbed Aftermath. One should not be lulled, however, into believing that the aftermath is somehow less dynamic than the explosion itself. This aftermath packs a devastating wallop of its own, orchestrated by Longo and ...
A Stan Kenton Celebration: Back to Balboa, Volume 6
by Jack Bowers
In May–June 1991 musicians and fans from around the world gathered in Newport Beach, California, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Stan Kenton Orchestra’s debut at the famed Rendezvous Ballroom. From that four–day event came a five–CD boxed set, Stan Kenton 50th Anniversary Celebration: Back to Balboa (MAMA 1003). Broad as it was, however, the ...
Pete Fountain with the New Lawrence Welk Orchestra: Big Band Blues
by Jack Bowers
When writing in a recent review about the scarcity of top–notch Jazz clarinetists on the scene today, I managed to overlook one — a pardonable error, as Pete Fountain has been sequestered for so long in his native New Orleans that it’s fairly easy for him to fly under one’s radar screen. Nevertheless, there’s no denying ...
The Walsall Jazz Orchestra: Devil in the Detail
by Jack Bowers
The Walsall Jazz Orchestra marks its twenty–fifth anniversary with Devil in the Detail, an impressive tour de force for founder / director John Hughes’ award–winning ensemble from the UK’s West Midlands. WJO, which began life in 1975 as the Walsall Youth Jazz Orchestra, has come a long way since then, performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival, ...
Lalo Schifrin: Esperanto
by Jack Bowers
Composer / conductor Lalo Schifrin has chosen an interesting name for this ambitious work — a concerto grosso in six movements for big band and soloists — using Ludwig Zamenhof’s Esperanto as a metaphor from which to advance his belief that there is indeed a universal language, but that language is music, not esperanto or any ...
Jackie Ryan: For Heaven's Sake
by Jack Bowers
For heaven’s sake! After reading Jim Merod’s laudatory liner notes to Jackie Ryan’s CD, I thought to myself that she’d have to be one helluva singer to live up to that kind of praise. Well, when all is said and done and the smoke has cleared, she is — at least, she’s close enough to make ...
Lars F: Heureka
by Jack Bowers
“Heureka,” recorded in 1970, is the first of this album’s two extended orchestral works by the late trumpeter Lars Färnlöf who was fifty–one years old when he passed away in February 1994. Completing the album is the six–movement “Svit (Suite) Caçhasa,” recorded in 1973 with the Swedish Radio Jazz Group. The three–part “Heureka,” on which Färnlöf’s ...
The SWR Big Band with Clark Terry: Jazz Matinee
by Jack Bowers
The irrepressible Clark Terry was a spry seventy–seven years old when this “Jazz Matinee” was recorded three years ago in Stuttgart, Germany. To hear him — on trumpet, flugelhorn or singing — is to summon forth images of a much younger man, so infectious is his boundless energy and unfailing good humor. About the latter, drummer ...
The DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Legacy
by Jack Bowers
Having taken a short trip across town to Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase to record its last album in concert, the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble returns to the studio for Legacy, where it is joined (on the last four tracks) by an honored guest, big–band drummer extraordinaire Louie Bellson. Louie wrote (and presents drum clinics on) all ...
Harry Allen: Love Songs Live!
by Jack Bowers
Two words are about all that are needed to sum up the singular talents of swing–based tenor saxophonist Harry Allen — smooth and consistent, each of which aspect of his charismatic persona is abundantly present on this compilation of love songs recorded in concert between 1993 and ’96. I’m not fully conversant with Allen’s influences but ...
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