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The City Rhythm Orchestra: Swingin' Blue / Goin' to Town
by Jack Bowers
A pair of hard–hitting big–band sessions by Philadelphia’s City Rhythm Orchestra, the most recent of which, Swingin’ Blue, we’ll survey first, as it showcases one of Philly’s favorite sons, the dynamic young organist Joey DeFrancesco. Blue was recorded nearly four years ago (September ’97) before an understandably enthusiastic audience at the City of Brotherly Love’s Five ...
Eric Alexander: The First Milestone
by Jack Bowers
Eric Alexander, the most fearsome young lion of them all, even looks the part on his “official” debut recording for Milestone Records — pensive, unsmiling, saxophone case in hand, primed and ready for another day of jungle warfare whose chief purpose is not so much to vanquish his musical peers as to earn their respect, something ...
Fredrik Nordstr: Urgency
by Jack Bowers
Young Fredrik Nordström (25 or 26 when this album was recorded last year) seems to be Sweden’s answer to America’s bumper crop of fast–rising saxophone stars (Josh Redman, Chris Potter, Ravi Coltrane, Eric Alexander, Mark Turner and so on), and that ain’t bad. Technically, at least, he’s on a par with any of them; his conceptual ...
Peter Weniger: With the Metropole Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Peter Weniger, hardly more than a blip on Jazz radar screens here in the States, has achieved a far more prominent stature in Germany and Europe, impressive enough to be invited in ’94 to record with the prestigious Netherlands Metropole Orchestra under director / arranger Rob Pronk. He’s in pretty good company, as American reedmen ...
Pierre D: Zig Zag Zimfoni
by Jack Bowers
Pierre Dørge’s well–upholstered New Jungle Orchestra plays world music, and does so quite well. It hardly ever plays Jazz, at least not in the customary sense of the word (although some improvisation is evidently involved). So if it’s straight–arrow Jazz you crave, look elsewhere. What you’ll find on Zig Zag Zimfoni is a series of musical ...
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Zurich 1962
by Jack Bowers
Another entry in TCB’s Swiss Radio Days series of concert performances by well–known Jazz artists, many of them from the U.S., taped for broadcast on Swiss Radio. For this date at Zurich’s Kongresshaus in October ’62, baritone maestro Gerry Mulligan’s quartet included young valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer (now a 71–year–old elder statesman), bassist (and more recently ...
Jim Riley: & Some Colorado Friends
by Jack Bowers
Although he was unaware of it before I wrote to ask for a copy of this CD, which I’d seen reviewed in Cadence magazine, saxophonist Jim Riley and I go back a long way together — to the early ’50s when I was a teen–age Jazz fan in Washingon, DC, and Jim was the youngest member ...
Bobby Sherwood & His Orchestra: 1942-45 Live Broadcasts with Zoot Sims
by Jack Bowers
When the first of these radio broadcasts by trumpeter / guitarist Bobby Sherwood’s orchestra was recorded in December 1942, tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims (featured on Gershwin’s “The Man I Love”) had recently celebrated his seventeenth birthday, which makes his solo on that number the more remarkable. Alas, by the time of the second air–check, in January ...
The University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab Band 1: Alive XVII: For the Last Time
by Jack Bowers
Talk about mixed emotions. It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new disc (or two) from the outrageously talented Jazz ensembles at the University of Northern Colorado; on the other hand, as Tevye was fond of saying in Fiddler on the Roof, it’s disheartening to learn that Alive XVII is, as its label implies, the last ...
Carl Saunders: Eclecticism
by Jack Bowers
There is one unequivocal reason to acquire this album, and it can be summarized in two words: Carl Saunders. If you’ve not yet heard this unsung master of the trumpet / flugelhorn, it’s time you did. And if you’ve already been introduced I needn’t say more, as no doubt the decision has already been made to ...
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