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Don Sebesky: Joyful Noise - A Tribute To Duke Ellington
by Jack Bowers
Joyful? Absolutely. Noise? Not on your bass drum, compadre.If it has taught us nothing else, the “Year of Ellington” now drawing to its close has shown that there are an almost infinite number of ways in which to enter and throw light upon the Duke’s abundant storehouse of enduring musical treasures. Don Sebesky has ...
Winthrop University: Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble
by Jack Bowers
The Winthrop University Jazz Ensemble, based in Rock Hill, South Carolina, shares its first–ever recording with the school’s Symphonic Band. I’d heard the Jazz Ensemble, under director Phil Thompson, at last year’s UNC–Charlotte Jazz Festival and was duly impressed. I wish I could say that I was as impressed by the album, but to be honest, ...
The Matt Wilson Quartet: Smile
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Matt Wilson leads a piano–less quartet with two horns, but if you’re expecting the second coming of Mulligan / Baker, you can shelve that notion. Wilson’s group is no lame throwback to the ’50s; on the contrary, it is almost obsessively up–to–date, using sophisticated harmonies, shifting time signatures, unconventional sounds and eccentric improvisations to press ...
The Aubel Band Sittard: 35 jaor
by Jack Bowers
Appraising the Aubel Band Sittard from the Netherlands should be relatively easy for a Jazz reviewer, as the band doesn’t play any Jazz at all. Some dance / swing music (“Sentimental Journey,” “A String of Pearls”) but that’s as close as it comes. What the band does play, primarily at least, on this CD from 1994 ...
Ralph Carmichael: Big Band Classics, Vol. 1
by Jack Bowers
One problem I have with many of these big–band anthologies is that they’re composed of a few “classics” and a lot of other songs the band likes to play. This is true to a degree in Ralph Carmichael’s salute, but at least the bona fide classics chosen by Carmichael outnumber the rest (by as many as ...
The Swedish Radio Jazz Group: A Swedish Tribute to Duke
by Jack Bowers
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Swedish Radio Jazz Group’s two–disc salute to Duke Ellington in his centenary year is that it includes no songs composed by Ellington himself. Son Mercer Ellington is represented by “Things Ain’t What They Used to Be,” strong right arm Billy Strayhorn by the elegant “Portrait of a Silk Thread.” ...
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra: Swinging Sounds of the Great Bands
by Jack Bowers
More than 40 years ago, Capitol Records issued the first of nine albums by Glen Gray’s Casa Loma Orchestra saluting the greatest ensembles of the Big Band era (including his own). The twenty selections on Swinging Sounds were collected from those volumes and reissued on CD by one of Gray’s ardent boosters, Tom Daly, who was ...
The Ed Palermo Big Band: Plays the Music of Frank Zappa
by Jack Bowers
Frank Zappa’s now batting .500. I’d heard one other big–band tribute to Zappa’s music (by an ensemble that will remain nameless) and was thoroughly unimpressed. But the second time’s a charm — and a charmer as well. What’s the difference? It has to be the fabulous charts by bandleader / alto saxophonist Ed Palermo who’s long ...
Tom Harrell: Time's Mirror
by Jack Bowers
And so after a long and successful career during which he has seldom been seen or heard in anything other than small–group environs (except for long–ago gigs with the Stan Kenton and Woody Herman orchestras), trumpeter / flugelhornist / composer Tom Harrell has come out of the closet, so to speak, to acknowledge that he has ...
Greg Bobulinski: East of the Sun
by Jack Bowers
Speaking of talent deserving wider recognition, here comes Greg Bobulinski (did I hear you say “Greg who”?) with a wonderful album of mostly standards which shows beyond a doubt that he’s a trumpeter to be reckoned with. Bobulinski seems to have all the equipment necessary for success — superior technique, gorgeous tone (on trumpet or flugel), ...
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