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Freddie Hubbard: Above and Beyond
by Jack Bowers
When the conversation turns to great trumpeters from the bop era onward — Diz, Brownie, Fats, Lee Morgan, Woody Shaw, Donald Byrd, Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, Booker Little and so on — Freddie Hubbard’s name sometimes slips through the cracks. Too bad, as during his heyday Hubbard could match wits with any of them ...
Jerry Jerome: And His All-Stars Live!
by Jack Bowers
This concert date by tenor saxophonist Jerry Jerome and his all–star sextet was recorded in May ’98, roughly sixty years after Jerome joined Benny Goodman’s celebrated dance band. That’s no misprint — the number sixty is correct. Six–oh. In fact, the robust and quick–witted Jerome was a month shy of his 86th birthday when he and ...
Brother Jack McDuff: Bringin' It Home
by Jack Bowers
Another funky, blues–drenched date by Hammond B–3 impresario Brother Jack McDuff and an assortment of intrepid soulmates who excel at bringin’ it home (and cookin’ it with the appropriate seasonings and garnishes). Every recording by McDuff is in a sense predictable, as one knows in advance that there’ll be an abundant supply of down–home music with ...
Dan St. Marseille: Departure
by Jack Bowers
If it’s true, as many say, that Jazz improvisation is actually story–telling by another name, tenor saxophonist Dan St. Marseille is an accomplished narrator who recounts a number of fascinating stories on Departure. None of them, it should be pointed out, is entirely unfamiliar, as comparable versions have been inscribed for a number of years by ...
Various Artists: Jazz @ Banff
by Jack Bowers
This recording, now more than four years old, was produced to celebrate the 20th anniversary (in 1994) of the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, with performances by a number of artists and groups associated with the Centre including the 1993–94 editions of the Banff Jazz Orchestra. Pianist Chucho Valdés (”Liza”) was recorded in ...
Rich Matteson-Red Mitchell: Life's a Take
by Jack Bowers
It’s almost as hard to comprehend that this buoyant album was recorded almost 15 years ago as it is to accept the fact that neither Rich Matteson (“the world’s greatest Jazz euphonium player”) nor Red Mitchell (“one of the world’s two greatest bassists to share that surname”) is no longer with us. Ironically, the session’s scurrying, ...
Various Artists: Big Band Favorites of Sammy Nestico
by Jack Bowers
Here are 11 charts by the incomparable Sammy Nestico, apparently recycled by Summit Jazz from at least three uncredited sources. If you have the Al Sanada All–Star Big Band’s recent release, Playing Sammy Nestico (from which the liner notes for this disc were transcribed almost word–for–word) or Nestico’s album Dark Orchid, which dates from 1981, you’re ...
Portland State University School of Fine & Performing Arts: Crossing the Bridge
by Jack Bowers
I can’t for the life of me understand the rationale of those who stand by the roadside and throw rocks at Jazz Studies programs. Yes, they have their blemishes, like any other enterprise, and most of the students won’t choose music as a profession (they’d much rather eat regularly), but at the very least these programs ...
UMO Jazz Orchestra: Electrifying Miles
by Jack Bowers
I can’t honestly evaluate this disc; the truth is, I can barely listen to it. Finland’s UMO Jazz Orchestra, whose superb release, Selected Standards, was reviewed last month, was kind enough to send this more recent recording in the same package, and while I must thank UMO for its generosity, it has impelled me to make ...
Cannon-Lechner Big Band: Live at 66 California
by Jack Bowers
It’s always a kick to inscribe a new name in the catalog of contemporary Jazz ensembles, especially when said group shows as much promise as the Southern California–based Cannon–Lechner Big Band. Co–leaders Boyd Cannon (drums) and Paul Lechner (baritone sax), apparently unaware that the big bands were pronounced dead and unceremoniously buried years ago, have built ...
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