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Trombonissimo: The Erling Kroner Dream Quintet
by Jack Bowers
Erling Kroner is a man divided — his mind and body pledged to Denmark, his heart and soul wedded to the sultry music of Argentina. Happily for the listener, the outcome of Kroner’s schizophrenia is a near–perfect amalgam of straight–ahead Jazz / blues and South American rhythms and harmonies, more specifically those of the tango and ...
Joanie Pallatto: Words and Music
by Jack Bowers
“Give my new disc a spin,” said Joanie Pallatto (via e–mail). “I think you’ll like it” (or words to that effect). Yeah, sure, I thought; another undiscovered phenom. Okay, so she was right; I liked it. A shade below phenomenal, perhaps, but I’ve heard a large number of female singers over the past few years including ...
Adam Rafferty: Blood, Sweat and Bebop
by Jack Bowers
As I’ve often confessed, when it comes to guitars and guitar players I’m by no means an expert — the truth is, they all sound pretty much alike to me. But listening to “Bubu,” the opening track on Adam Rafferty’s debut recording for Consolidated Artists, I was reminded of Wes Montgomery, even though I don’t know ...
The All Times Big Band: Swing Street
by Jack Bowers
The All Times Big Band, based in Hilversum, the Netherlands, presents a mixture of pop, swing, Jazz, show tunes and dance music on its second album, and plays all of it quite well. The Jazz component, however, is confined for the most part to a number of well–written charts, with solos that are brief and perfunctory. ...
The NDR Big Band: Plays Benny Goodman
by Jack Bowers
This charming two–disc set by Germany’s world–class NDR Big Band was recorded in 1998, sixty years after clarinetist Benny Goodman’s legendary concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, and is meant to salute that memorable occasion. It’s not an exact re–creation, thank goodness, but a number of arrangements written especially for the Goodman band were meticulously ...
Peter Welker: We'll Be Together Again
by Jack Bowers
Eight beauteous songs lovingly embraced by veteran San Francisco Bay area trumpeter Peter Welker with help from a number of his friends. If Welker’s name weren’t above the marquee one would be hard–pressed to identify him as the foreman; everyone on this assembly line makes an essential contribution, Welker no more than anyone else. Trumpeter Herb ...
The Larry Goldings Trio: Moonbird
by Jack Bowers
Larry Goldings’ organ trio gets down in a hurry on the funky “Crawdaddy,” which introduces the group’s latest recording, its first for Palmetto Records. Goldings, Bernstein and Stewart have been playing together for a decade (that’s close to a century in music–group years) and have arrived at a “Comfort Zone” that must be the envy of ...
The Ron Kurz Orchestra: Dancing in the Light
by Jack Bowers
One thing we don’t know about Ron Kurz’s orchestra is who its members are (personnel are unnamed). One thing we do know is that this is “light Jazz” or “new age” music, directed toward those who might conceivably identify Count Basie or Duke Ellington as members of Britain’s House of Lords. All of the compositions and ...
The Chris McDonald Orchestra: Big Band Hymns / Big Band Christmas
by Jack Bowers
Big band hymns? If you’re thinking there’s no way the two can be compatible, much less swing, there’s no doubt you’ve not yet heard these sacred anthems remodeled in contemporary big–band arrangements by the conspicuously talented Chris McDonald. If the mind is receptive, it won’t take much more than the first few bars of “I’ll Fly ...
The Don Redman Orchestra: Geneva 1946
by Jack Bowers
From an historical standpoint, it’s beneficial to have on compact disc this concert date by saxophonist Don Redman’s orchestra, recorded by Swiss Radio during a tour of Europe undertaken only one year after the end of World War II. Redman’s well–disciplined orchestra nimbly straddled the fence between two eras — swing and bop — and numbered ...
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