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Bill O'Connell's Chicago Skyliners Big Band: Play It Again, Sammy
by Jack Bowers
For those who can't get enough Basie, especially Basie""style charts written by quintessential swingmeister Sammy Nestico, Play It Again, Sammy may be just the ticket. The disc's subtitle is “The Count Basie / Sammy Nestico Years, and much of the material on offer has been recycled from an earlier LP (and later, CD), Basie Straight Ahead, ...
The Century College Jazz Ensemble: Swing House
by Jack Bowers
I’d heard the Century College Jazz Ensemble before but under its former name, Lakewood Community College, and was quite impressed. This first recording under the new Century College banner is no less so, with director Larry Neumann’s students giving an excellent account of themselves on four songs from the pop / film canon, originals by Gerry ...
The George Roumanis Big Band: Swing! Here and Now
by Jack Bowers
It was a pleasant surprise to learn that Swing! Here and Now is devoted exclusively to the music of the great Harry Warren — and we don’t use the word “great” casually — one of the most talented yet sadly neglected songwriters of Hollywood’s Golden Age of musical films. How good was he? Well, Warren won ...
The SWR Big Band Featuring Max Greger: Swing-Legenden Live
by Jack Bowers
Germany’s SWR Big Band, with nearly half a century of experience under its belt, is one tight, punchy and self–confident ensemble. In this concert performance from September ’99, featuring the veteran tenor saxophonist Max Greger, the SWR belts out a series of evergreens from the Swing Era and Tin Pan Alley with a disarming blend of ...
Mart Kenney and the New Ballroom Orchestra: Swinging Musical Showcase
by Jack Bowers
Mart Kenney, Canada’s answer to Benny Carter, has been playing the saxophone for more than seventy of his ninety years and leading a dance band nearly as long, having formed Mart Kenney’s Western Gentlemen in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the early ’30s before he was old enough to vote. March 12, 2000, was designated “Mart Kenney ...
Woody Herman: The Complete Capitol Recordings
by Jack Bowers
The “complete recordings” of any artist, no matter how accomplished he or she may be, are almost by definition a mixed bag, and Mosaic’s The Complete Capitol Recordings of Woody Herman is no exception. Complementing superb entries from a number of memorable LPs by Woody’s Thundering Herds, circa 1948–56, are tracks on which Herman performs with ...
The SWR Big Band Featuring Bob Mintzer: The Music of Duke Ellington and Bob Mintzer
by Jack Bowers
To celebrate the centenary of Duke Ellington’s birth, Germany’s SWR Big Band joined forces with American saxophonist / big band leader Bob Mintzer for a May ’99 concert performance in Stuttgart that includes half a dozen compositions by Ellington (or associates) and four others by Mintzer. While considerable resourcefulness is needed to transmute any of these ...
The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra: Traditions & Swingin' Together
by Jack Bowers
Here are two superlative recordings by one of the country's most accomplished community-based ensembles, the sixteen-year-old Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. Traditions , recorded in June 1999, refers to a nearly century-long tradition of world-class Jazz in that bustling city on the shores of Lake Erie, admirably summarized by Jazz historian and author Joe Mosbrook in an informative ...
George Graham: With More Help from My Friends
by Jack Bowers
The first thing one notices about trumpeter George Graham is his absolutely gorgeous tone; the second is that no matter how small or elusive the musical target, he never misses; the third is that this consummate lead trumpeter is also a remarkably sure–fingered and persuasive Jazz soloist. We could go on, but you get the idea. ...
The Big Band Sound: Live and Swingin'!
by Jack Bowers
We should begin by stating the obvious — The Big Band Sound, which has been performing in and around New York’s Hudson River Valley since 1975, is an amateur endeavor. On Live and Swingin’! the BBS recreates in its fashion many of the familiar songs from the Swing Era, blending a few more recent works (Sammy ...
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