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The Millennium Jazz Orchestra: Millennium / The Second Millennium
by Jack Bowers
Three years ago baritone saxophonist Phil Doggett phoned a friend, bass guitarist Chris Reid, who’d once performed with Great Britain’s most prominent training band, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, with the idea of forming a twenty–piece ensemble that would use nonprofessional musicians to play contemporary charts at a professional level. And thus was born the Millennium ...
The NDR Big Band: The Theatre of Kurt Weill
by Jack Bowers
Although perhaps best known in his native Germany, composer Kurt Weill wrote songs for the musical theatre that transcended boundaries, several of which (“Mack the Knife,” “Speak Low,” “My Ship”) are played often today in many styles and contexts, 100 years after Weill’s birth and half a century after his death, not only in Germany but ...
NOJO (The Neufeld / Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra: You Are Here
by Jack Bowers
NOJO (Canada’s Neufeld / Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra) is back with its second engaging album of unclassifiable music, this time with poll–winning guest clarinetist / bass clarinetist Don Byron on hand to add his elliptical commentary. Whereas many undernourished ensembles exert every effort to sound larger than they are, NOJO’s seventeen members seem to go out of ...
The Phil Norman Tentet: Live at the Lighthouse
by Jack Bowers
Among the birthplaces of the so–called “West Coast sound” in Jazz back in the ’50s and ’60s was bassist Howard Rumsey’s fabled Lighthouse at Hermosa Beach, which served as home base from time to time for such musical legends as Shorty Rogers, Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, Conte Candoli, Bud Shank, Frank Rosolino, Maynard Ferguson, Bob Enevoldsen, ...
The Northern Michigan University Lab Band: Good Ol' Days
by Jack Bowers
One must crawl before he / she can walk, and Good Ol’ Days represents a shaky but important first few steps onto the Jazz playground for the Northern Michigan University Lab Band directed by Dr. John Cooper and accompanied by special guest Clark Terry on this April ’98 concert date. The band loses its balance quite ...
The Summit Jazz Orchestra: Moods of a Cat
by Jack Bowers
After listening to more than a thousand big bands from all parts of the world over the past decade or so, one can generally ascertain after the first few measures have been played where a particular ensemble belongs in the hierarchy. The Summit Jazz Orchestra, a relatively young band from Regensburg, Germany, belongs precisely where its ...
The Young Sounds of Arizona: Ringers
by Jack Bowers
The Young Sounds of Arizona (forty high–school students ages 14–19, not all of whom perform on this album) aren’t in fact Ringers, as the album’s name insinuates — they only play that way! For those few who are unfamiliar with the term, a “ringer,” according to Webster, is “a substitute or addition, as a professional musician ...
The Woody Herman Orchestra / Ina Ray Hutton Orchestra / Bob Crosby's Bobcats: 1946 Broadcasts / 1943-44 Spotlight Band Broadcasts / 1937-40 Broadcasts
by Jack Bowers
Even though there are moments of pleasurable big–band swing in these reissues from 1937–46 by Woody Herman’s First Herd, singer Ina Ray Hutton’s (all–male) orchestra, and Bob Crosby and the Bobcats, they should be of greatest interest to avid record collectors and completists. While Soundcraft has done a respectable job of cleaning the original acetate (and ...
The Howard University Jazz Ensemble '99: Come Sunday: A Tribute to Duke Ellington
by Jack Bowers
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, the most influential composer / arranger / bandleader in the history of Jazz, was born April 29, 1899, in Washington, DC. As it happens, our nation’s capital is also home to Howard University, which boasts one of the country’s foremost undergraduate Jazz ensembles and most respected Jazz Studies programs. In 1971 Ellington ...
The Bohusl: Faces
by Jack Bowers
Sweden’s world–class Bohuslän Big Band, which hit its stride in the ’90s via a number of superlative recordings with guest artists (One Poem, One Painting; A Perfect Match; Pegasos; The Blue Pearl), stumbles from the starting gate and has trouble closing ground on Faces, an ambitious but uneven set of compositions and arrangements by members of ...
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