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The Quincy Jones Big Band: Lausanne 1960
by Jack Bowers
Quincy Jones made a number of recordings while traveling through western Europe with his big band nearly 40 years ago. This is the best one we’ve heard. Although sound quality is typical of an early–’60s radio broadcast, which this was, Quincy’s all–star ensemble is kicking butt and taking no prisoners in Lausanne, Switzerland. As no less ...
The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band: Liebermann -- Live at Jazz Fest Berlin
by Jack Bowers
So how many ways are there to say that the music on the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band’s album, Live at Jazz Fest Berlin, is on the whole pleasant but doesn’t really move me? Only one, I suppose — the music on the GGCJB’s album is on the whole pleasant but doesn’t really move me. Neither ...
Big Band Liechtenstein: LMS Big Band Does It All / Alive
by Jack Bowers
The good news is that tiny Liechtenstein (area about 160 square miles, population less than 40,000) has a big band to call its own. The even better news is that Big Band Liechtenstein is a fairly respectable ensemble, equal in its debut recording (Does It All) to some of our best high school or even mid–level ...
The Orchestra: Noxx
by Jack Bowers
For those who’d rather chew and digest their helpings of big–band Jazz slowly and carefully instead of gulping down a series of low–calorie riffs and shout choruses, here’s a lavish spread ably prepared by The Orchestra from beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark. The seven compositions, all by members of the band or director / tenor saxophonist Henrik Frisk, ...
Count Basie Orchestra: Paris Jazz Concert, April 1972
by Jack Bowers
There are at least two things one must keep in mind when considering live or studio recordings made some years ago by well-- known Jazz artists or groups and released on compact disc by not--so--well--known labels. One is playing time; the other is over--all sound quality. The Count Basie Orchestra's Paris Jazz Concert, which took place ...
Shorty Rogers and His Giants: Portrait of Shorty
by Jack Bowers
This Portrait of Shorty is an unfinished portrait, of course, but no less pleasing because of it. Rogers called his big band “The Giants,” which is entirely appropriate, as he himself was widely recognized as one of the giants of the so–called West Coast school of “cool Jazz” that was born in the early ’50s and ...
The Big Band de Lausanne, etc.: SwitzerJazz
by Jack Bowers
The “Rheinknie Session,” held annually in Basle, Switzerland, brings together many of that country’s leading Jazz musicians for a five–day festival. In October 1995, festival officials agreed to set aside one evening for a mammoth event that would present many of Switzerland’s most accomplished Jazz artists in concert. Thirty–five prominent musicians were contacted, and all but ...
The Don Bowes Big Band: Walkin' Easy
by Jack Bowers
Beware the fine print. The bold heading on this album reads “Don Bowes Big Band.” Below it, in smaller type, are the words “featuring Jan Laurie.” Laurie, the band’s resident vocalist, sings on ten of the seventeen selections. Nothing personal, Jan, but I’d rather hear the band, which sounds altogether respectable on the seven instrumentals. Pianist ...
Kenny Burrell and the Jazz Heritage All-Stars: Live at the Blue Note
by Jack Bowers
I don’t know how the Jazz Heritage All–Stars were chosen, but can’t quarrel with the results of the vote or whatever was involved. Leader Kenny Burrell’s credentials are unimpeachable, and everyone else on this concert date from July ’96 at New York’s Blue Note nightspot is a remarkably accomplished musician. While Burrell’s mellow guitar is the ...
Cecilia Wennestr: Minor Stomp
by Jack Bowers
Minor Stomp, major talent. Women seem to be taking to the baritone sax these days like rice to krispies, and Sweden’s Cecilia Wennerström is well–nigh as impressive as any player one can name, male or female. Wennerström (born 1947) is no young lioness; she spent years paying her dues, first as a singer and pianist before ...
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