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Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: Madcap

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

Chuck Owen’s Florida–based Jazz Surge charts an adventurous course on its second album for Sea Breeze Records, and while it doesn’t always strike the target it does so often enough to keep one’s mind from wandering too far from the action. The Surge, some of whose members are students or faculty members at the University of ...

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The Ib Glindemann Orchestra: Swing Shoes / A String of Pearls / Ping-Pong

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

Bandleader Ib Glindemann has been a fixture on the Danish music scene for almost half a century, having formed his first professional band in 1956 and served as conductor (1964–68) of the Danish Radio New Dance Orchestra which eventually became the Danish Radio Big Band (and now the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra). After traveling the world ...

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Woody Herman: The Third Herd

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

In 1951, two years after he was forced to disband the groundbreaking Second Herd, Woody Herman was back in the saddle and leading another swinging ensemble, the suitably named Third Herd. These radio air–checks of the Herd were recorded during a three–week engagement at the Hollywood Palladium in May–June ’51. Gone were the original “Four Brothers” ...

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The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra: The Voice of Silence

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

This unconventional album by the DRJO consists of a nine–part suite written by Palle Mikkelborg as “an homage to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art” (which is not in the Louisiana that encircles the mouth of the Mississippi River but in the Danish town of Humlebaek, about 30 km north of Copenhagen). The museum was established ...

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The Tom Talbert Orchestra: The Warm Cafe

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

“Discover Jazz,” the booklet accompanying this splendid CD suggests, and there are few more pleasant ways to do so than by taking one’s seat near the bandstand for an hour or so of delightfully easygoing music in Tom Talbert’s amiable Warm Cafe. A tip of the fedora to Essential Music Group for reissuing the album, which ...

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The Tom Talbert Orchestra: To a Lady

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

Bob Brookmeyer, speaking recently about the passing of so many of Jazz’s creative voices, said, “Thank goodness we still have Lee Konitz.” And Tom Talbert, Bob. Talbert, who has been composing and arranging for groups of every size and shape for nearly sixty years, shows again on To a Lady, his first album since ’98, that ...

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Ryan Haines: To the Sky

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2001

Ryan Haines, who has spent the better part of his musical career playing trombone in a number of U.S. Air Force Jazz ensembles, pilots a well–equipped big band into the stratosphere on To the Sky, his high–flying “civilian” debut on Sea Breeze Records. Haines wrote eight of the ten numbers on the album, which together comprise ...

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The Per Henrik Wallin Trio: 9 * 9 * 99

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2001

Per Henrik Wallin is a remarkable pianist, and listening to his trio in this concert performance is a memorable experience. Wallin, paralyzed from the waist down by an accident in 1988, can no longer use the pedals while playing but has compensated so well by altering his touch that one scarcely notices the shortcoming (if indeed ...

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The Midiri Brothers: Avalon

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2001

Here’s nearly an hour of mild but savory Swing Era–style cooking by the brothers Midiri, woodwind master Joe and multi–instrumentalist Paul, and their New Jersey–based trio and sextet. Not to give away any secrets, but listening to the half–dozen trio numbers, on which Joe Midiri plays clarinet, brother Paul plays drums and Joe Holt is the ...

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The Trinity Big Band: Cuban Fire

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2001

I’d forgotten what a marvelous piece of work the late Johnny Richards’ Cuban Fire suite is, and am grateful to Bobby Lamb and the intrepid young musicians at Trinity College for such an emphatic reminder. Lamb, an Irish–born trombonist who once played in the Stan Kenton Orchestra and remains a great admirer of Kenton’s music, chose ...