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Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine: Everything Under the Sun
by Jack Bowers
The second release by the San Diego–based Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine is quite well–named. Perhaps an even better name would have been “everything but the kitchen sink.” The band is all over the map in a session that is evidently designed to showcase its many talents for the purpose of securing gigs.
Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt / HR Big Band / Broadway Orchestra: Happy Birthday George Gershwin
by Jack Bowers
As one can see, this gala concert honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer George Gershwin showcases not one but three orchestras including the HR Big Band, which takes care of the Jazzier aspects of the program. The R–S–O Frankfurt opens with half a dozen well–known Gershwin songs featuring soprano Mary Anne Kruger and ...
Allmand Chaoten Orchester: Potato Jazz, Live / Pool Jazz
by Jack Bowers
The 21–year–old Allmand Chaoten Orchester, based in Stuttgart, is another of the many young German big bands who obviously love what they are doing and are a lot of fun to hear. The more recent of these two discs, Potato Jazz, was recorded in concert in ’98 to mark the ACO’s 20th anniversary. After opening with ...
ETH Big Band: Three Down
by Jack Bowers
As Three Down is a demo disc for the ETH Big Band, no information is included aside from song titles. So what we know is that the ensemble is from Switzerland, plays 11 selections including a medley of songs associated with Nat King Cole, and gives every one of them the best it has to offer. ...
The Studio "A" Big Band: Uptown Stomp: A Tribute to the Big Bands
by Jack Bowers
Instead of merely rehashing songs that were popular during America’s Golden Age of big bands (mainly the ’30s and ’40s), the Studio “A” Big Band salutes its renowned forerunners by performing (mostly) new compositions by Don Sebesky, Howard Rowe, Dominick Spera, Lennie Niehaus and others “in the style of” those celebrated ensembles and others of more ...
Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra: Basle, 1969
by Jack Bowers
It has been 30 years to the month since this concert appearance by the Thad Jones–Mel Lewis Orchestra was recorded in Basle, Switzerland, and I’d guess that some of those who were lucky enough to be in the audience still remember the occasion fondly. Although the (unedited) sound on the CD is uneven at times, with ...
The Studio "A" Big Band: Da Blues Done Gotcha Again!
by Jack Bowers
Da Blues have seldom been as high–spirited or upbeat as they are on this breezy collection of blues–based compositions (six) and arrangements by Andy Clark performed by the largely anonymous but notably accomplished Studio “A” Big Band. Of the half–dozen compositions that aren’t his (and another that isn’t quite), Clark hasn’t gone for the obvious (except ...
Jens Wendelboe: Crazy Energy Jazz Quartet / Get Crazy
by Jack Bowers
Norwegian trombonist Jens Wendelboe, who loves to “get crazy” by exploring various Jazz formats and sounds from swing to funk, Jazz–rock to fusion, motors straight down the middle of the road on the first of these two discs by his Crazy Energy Quartet, playing, for the most part, songs from the archives of popular and Jazz ...
Steve Million: Truth Is...
by Jack Bowers
I love the opening of pianist Steve Million’s new CD, wherein Steve and his sidemen seem to be searching for the “lost chord.” Oh, yes, they find it, and a number of others too in a session that is quirky, almost Monkish at times, but always melodious and consistently rewarding. The album’s title seems to imply ...
Joe Locke / David Hazeltine Quartet: Mutual Admiration Society
by Jack Bowers
This is a sparkling, deeply–grooved session by four seasoned pros whose musical temperaments are perfectly harmonized. While Locke and Hazeltine, both 40, have known each other for more than a decade, Mutual Admiration Society marks their first collaborative effort in a recording studio, one in which the reciprocal esteem is evident from start to finish. Locke ...
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