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Derwyn Holder / Sue Terry / Ron Naspo: Time Being
by Jack Bowers
All of the compositions on Time Being are by pianist Derwyn Holder, and the album is most appropriately named, as he uses time and space like a master architect within an always compelling musical framework. Holder approaches Jazz from a classical perspective, as do Terry and Naspo, and their collaboration has produced a session of understated ...
Abby & Norm Group: Volume 1: The Book of Norm
by Jack Bowers
Abby & Norm (who also answer to Mr. & Mrs. and are assistant professors of guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston) enclosed a nice personal note with this CD saying they would be “honored to know” what I think of it — as if what I think carries any weight or makes any ...
Warren Vache: Warren Plays Warren
by Jack Bowers
One of the first questions younger listeners may ask about the recipient of this tribute album is, “Warren who?" The name is Harry Warren, and while he's hardly as well--known or celebrated as Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers, Berlin or other icons of Tin Pan Alley, the marvelous songs Warren wrote--primarily for Hollywood films--were as popular in their ...
Shelley Neill: Music Sweet Music
by Jack Bowers
What I admire most about Shelley Neill’s Music Sweet Music is her splendid choice of material. And next to that, the enterprising rhythm section (especially pianist Laszlo Gardony). No, that doesn’t say much for the singer, but when one finds himself looking forward to the piano solos, that speaks volumes. It troubles me to appraise anyone ...
Joe Ascione Octet: My Buddy
by Jack Bowers
Joe Ascione’s “buddy” is surnamed Rich, and this Nagel–Heyer release is Ascione’s enthusiastic and colorful salute to the drumming wizardry of one of his heroes and role models, Bernard “Buddy” Rich. Ascione, 35 years old when this recording was made (in November ’96), first encountered Rich via recordings in the early ’70s, an experience he recalls ...
Conosur: Zonda
by Jack Bowers
This is a rhythmically intense album of Latin compositions by Conosur (guitarists Hernán Romero and Tony Viscardo) augmented on occasion by vocals, percussion, bandoneon, cymbals, drums and/or bass. Romero wrote seven of the dozen tunes, Viscardo two. The others are “La Añera,” the familiar “El Condor Pasa” and Astor Piazzolla’s slow tango, “Oblivion.” Between them, Romero ...
Bingo Miki and the Inner Galaxy Orchestra: Montreux Cyclone
by Jack Bowers
Sometimes it pays to be lucky. After searching in vain for a couple of hard–to–find albums from the mid–’70s by Tokyo–based Toshiyuki Miyama’s New Herd (see August big–band reviews), I went to the source — the affable Tee Fujii, proprietor of Three Blind Mice Records. Of course, he replied, he would be happy to send copies ...
The Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble, Glee Club and Gospel Ensemble: The Sacred Concert Music of Duke Ellington
by Jack Bowers
This is an absorbing entry in the “Duke Ellington Centennial Sweepstakes,” ably performed in concert by the Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble and a cast of thousands (actually, the Glee Club and Gospel Ensemble) conducted by Anthony Branker. The music is excerpted from Ellington’s three Concerts of Sacred Music, which premiered in 1965, ’68 and ’73 ...
North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra: Benny Goodman -- The Swing Collection
by Jack Bowers
During the Swing Era there were two clarinetists who stood above the rest, at least in terms of mass popularity — Artie Shaw and the King of Swing himself, Benny Goodman. Even though Goodman, who organized his first big band in 1934, has been gone for 13 years his popularity has seldom waned, and the music ...
Schwarz / Rot Atemgold 09: Am Emscherstrand / Standard
by Jack Bowers
Several words come to mind when listening to Germany’s Atemgold 09 ensemble; predictable isn’t one of them. The earlier of these two discs, Am Emscherstrand, consists of 15 original compositions written between 1983–92, with the emphasis definitely on “original.” All but one, it appears, were written by members of the band (Raimond Fleiter, who composed “Veterano,” ...
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