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The Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra: Well Seasoned
by Jack Bowers
If anyone is apprehensive about the future of big'band Jazz, he or she need only look eastward toward Asia, Europe and the British Isles to lay any such fears to rest. Even though big bands remain very much alive in the good old US of A, overseas is where it's really happenin' these days. As one ...
The University of North Texas Two O'Clock Jazz Band: A Salute to Benny Carter
by Jack Bowers
After more than half a century, the tradition of excellence continues at the University of North Texas in Denton with this splendid new release by the school’s Two O’Clock Jazz Band (the various UNT ensembles are named after their daily rehearsal times). While the famed One O’Clock Band is the best known and most widely recorded ...
The Aylesbury Music Centre Dance Band: Beyond the Limit
by Jack Bowers
After listening to several selections on Beyond the Limit, the Aylesbury Music Centre’s fourth recording (and second on disc), then glancing at the sleevenote, my first thought was that the information therein must have been misprinted — it says the average age of AMC band–members on Limit is sixteen! Oh come on, do you really expect ...
The Hoover High School Studio Jazz Orchestra and Jump Swing Band: Jazz in 1999
by Jack Bowers
The Hoover High School Downbeat Combo from Glendale, CA, one of four groups represented on this CD from ’99, performed in January with several other high–school ensembles at the 27th annual Conference of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) in New Orleans, LA. Director Greg Kupka says in the liner notes that Hoover has won ...
The Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra: Labor of Love
by Jack Bowers
The Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra’s first recording ( Live and Screamin’, a concert date from October–November ’97) was so impressive the thought here was that only a “labor of love” could possibly equal or surpass it. Well, the millennium has arrived, and with it the CMJO’s Labor of Love, and if the band’s second excursion can’t ...
The Woody Herman Orchestra: Live in London at Ronnie Scott's
by Jack Bowers
Any list of the year’s ten (or even five) most admirable big–band albums that doesn’t include Live in London should be greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism. Sure, much of the Woody Herman Orchestra’s concert appearance last August at London’s premier Jazz club, Ronnie Scott’s, is comprised of well–worn Herman favorites (“Apple Honey,” “Early Autumn,” ...
The University of Michigan Jazz Ensemble: Low-Down
by Jack Bowers
Every so often a new undergraduate Jazz Studies program steps forward to make its voice heard loudly and clearly as it establishes itself among the front ranks of college Jazz ensembles. The latest to do this is the University of Michigan, and here we have the Low–Down to prove it. The UM big band has come ...
The Roy Wiegand Jazz Orchestra: Stan -- The Big Sur
by Jack Bowers
Trombonist Roy Wiegand’s third big–band release in the last couple of years is by far his best to date with radiant charts by David Stout, Howie Shear, Kim Richmond, Johnny Richards, Rusty Higgins and Pete Rugolo / Bob Russell, and intrepid blowing throughout by Wiegand and his well–endowed companions. Wiegand, who once played in orchestras led ...
The Jim Knapp Orchestra: Things for Now
by Jack Bowers
On Things for Now, Jim Knapp has managed without using smoke or mirrors to raise my emotional response from lukewarm (to his earlier release, On Going Home ) to near–molten. He has done so simply by presenting a series of colorful charts that gladden one’s ear and swing under any and all conditions. While the band ...
Anthony Wilson: Adult Themes
by Jack Bowers
In spite of its provocative title, the themes on composer / arranger / guitarist Anthony Wilson’s third release for the MAMA Foundation aren’t x–rated. Perhaps “music for adults” would be a more accurate description, for that it surely is. Wilson, who has reached the ripe old age of 31, validates the uncommon maturity that overspread his ...
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