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The Rodger Fox Big Band: Ain't That the Truth
by Jack Bowers
This is the fourteenth recording by one of the best big bands you’ve probably never heard, trombonist Rodger Fox’s world–class ensemble from far–away New Zealand. As on several of those earlier albums, which featured guest appearances by such well–known Jazz artists as John Scofield, Tom Harrell, Gary Grant, Bobby Shew and Bill Reichenbach, Fox employs a ...
The New Vintage Big Band: Always and Forever
by Jack Bowers
The first thought that springs to mind when listening to the derriere-kicking New Vintage Big Band is, “Where have these guys been hiding?" The answer is the greater Kansas City area, where the ensemble has been honing its ample skills since Jack Taylor pieced it together more than nine years ago “to provide an ...
The Des Moines Big Band: Being There
by Jack Bowers
This is the third recording we’ve heard by the splendid Des Moines Big Band, now in its forty–first year, and each of them has featured a talented guest artist: first, trumpeter Bobby Shew; next, DSMBB director Jim Oatts’ New York–based brother, saxophonist Dick Oatts; and now trumpeter Walter White who composed half of the ten selections ...
The Stan Sulzmann Big Band: Birthdays, Birthdays
by Jack Bowers
Stan Sulzmann, best known to Jazz fans in Great Britain as a resourceful post–bop saxophonist with a readily identifiable sound, proves on this provocative big–band debut album (inspired by Stan’s 50th birthday party) that he is a composer / arranger whose insights and originality are well above the norm. Every selection on Birthdays, Birthdays was arranged ...
The Virginia Tech Jazz Band: Four
by Jack Bowers
While the news media center their attention on Virginia Tech’s football team led by quarterback Michael Vick, former Maynard Ferguson signal–caller Chip McNeill has been quietly assembling another winning combo in the school’s music department, one whose proficiency is readily borne out in an advance copy of its first studio recording. From Miles Davis’ “Four,” adeptly ...
The Chicago Jazz Ensemble: Kenton a la Russo
by Jack Bowers
William Russo, who used to be just plain Bill when he was playing trombone and writing for the Stan Kenton Orchestra nearly half a century ago, is now a professor of music at Chicago’s Columbia College and conductor of the splendid Chicago Jazz Ensemble which recorded Kenton a la Russo in concert last February at Joe ...
Apple's Paradise Big Band: Live
by Jack Bowers
Not much is known about Apple’s Paradise aside from the fact that it is located somewhere in or around Berikon, Switzerland. One thing that can be noted with assurance is that this Paradise is home to a moderately well–endowed contemporary big band (amateur division) led by Kuno Heer. Even though this brief (37:40) example of its ...
The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: Live at Pearl's
by Jack Bowers
The San Francisco–based Contemporary Jazz Orchestra’s debut album was recorded in November ’96 during a performance at Pearl’s nightclub in the city by the bay. The orchestra gets right down to business with a gritty rendition of Frank Foster’s “Tomorrow’s Blues Today” and remains in top–notch form throughout the rest of the concert, which includes Bronislaw ...
The Big Barchem Band: Magnifying-Glass
by Jack Bowers
About the last place one might think to look for an ultra–hip, ultra–swinging and inclusively modern big band is the Netherlands, but there — word of honor — is where one may readily find exactly that, namely the awesomely talented Big Barchem Band under Joan Reinders’ unerring baton. The Barchem ensemble, which released its first CD, ...
The Stan Kenton Orchestra: Odyssey 1951-68
by Jack Bowers
The Kenton Orchestra’s Odyssey, comprising previously unreleased concert dates from 1951–68, was assembled from various sources (audio tapes) by John Loeffler’s superb Astral Jazz label, which already has given Kenton partisans the orchestra’s definitive in–person recording, the magnificent Live at Keesler Air Force Base, 1958, and at least three other superlative concerts by the unrivaled Kenton ...
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