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United Women's Orchestra: UWO
by Jack Bowers
This is the earlier of two CDs by Germany’s forward–leaning United Women’s Orchestra; for an appraisal of its more recent release (The Blue One), see the June ’99 big–band reviews. This is uncompromisingly sophisticated music in a Charles Mingus/Gil Evans/Maria Schneider groove, and not for the faint of heart. The compositions — by co–leaders Leach (four) ...
Various Artists: A Summit Jazz Adventure
by Jack Bowers
Adventure is a sampler from Summit’s impressive roster of Jazz artists, and like most such endeavors it’s something of a mixed bag. On the plus side, Summit has a number of strapping horses in its stable, and the track on which they’re running here is fast and well–tended. For maximum pleasure, however, one’s tastes should be ...
Jimmy Forrest: Black Forrest
by Jack Bowers
Tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest, best known and perhaps best remembered as composer of the huge R&B smash, “Night Train,” was also an underrated swing–based player out of the Gene Ammons/Lockjaw Davis/Sonny Stitt school whose ample talents are showcased on the quintet date Black Forrest, recorded in 1959 with the same cast (and a couple of the ...
The Deborah Weisz Quintet: Breaking Up, Breaking Out
by Jack Bowers
Deborah Weisz is an excellent trombonist, no doubt about that — and she has the resumé to prove it (degrees from UNLV, seven years backing Sinatra); but her debut album, Breaking Up, Breaking Out, delivers much more promise than excitement. While everything flows along well enough from song to song, few sparks are produced, and one ...
Bill McFarland and the Chicago Horns: Fire Horns
by Jack Bowers
Hard–hitting is the word that springs immediately to mind when listening to trombonist Bill McFarland’s Chicago Horns. Although McFarland and his companions aren’t mired in a time warp, their highly rhythmic, no–nonsense approach often recalls the dynamic hard–bopping groups led by Art Blakey, Horace Silver and others during the swinging ’50s, ’60s and beyond. They are ...
Andy Summers: Green Chimneys
by Jack Bowers
Although I don’t mean to sound as though I’m damning with faint praise, Green Chimneys is better than I thought it might be. Guitarist Andy Summers, best known for his work with the rock group the Police, is, as it turns out, a longtime fan of Thelonious Monk, hence this well–meaning if not always riveting tribute ...
Lew Tabackin: L'Archiduc -- 'Round About Five
by Jack Bowers
Those who maintain that the elusive art of Jazz improvisation has fallen on hard times and point to Sonny Rollins as perhaps the last of the daring modern–day voices on saxophone may be overlooking someone. In other words, it could be rewarding to listen, for example, to Lew Tabackin who, like Rollins, has devised a singular ...
The Jimmy Bruno Trio: Live at Birdland II
by Jack Bowers
As its title indicates, this is the second recording made by guitarist Jimmy Bruno’s trio during recent gigs at New York’s fabled Birdland, and as with the first, the listener is treated to two sessions for the price of one, with tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton making it a quartet on the second half of the program ...
Eddie Johnson: Love You Madly
by Jack Bowers
No Jazz fan can tarry long in Chicago without entering Eddie Johnson’s orbit. Even at 78, the veteran tenor saxophonist remains one of the busiest, best–known and most sought–after players in the Windy City and environs, and if his conspicuous talents aren’t more easily recognized elsewhere it’s only because he has chosen to blow his own ...
Chris Woods: Modus Operandi
by Jack Bowers
Among the many pleasures of reviewing Jazz is the discovery of recordings such as this one by relatively unknown yet enormously talented players like the late Chris Woods. Modus Operandi was recorded in January 1978, about seven years before Woods’ death. Our hat is off to Delmark for reissuing the session, which cooks agreeably from start ...
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