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David Liebman: The Elements: Water
by Jack Bowers
Water, the first of four Jazz suites by Dave Liebman inspired by the elements (Earth, Air and Fire are to follow) is designed to evoke images of water in its many forms and guises, from tranquil to chaotic, rivulet to ocean, droplet to deluge. Does it achieve its purpose? Perhaps so. But others will have to ...
Main Stream Power Band: A Date with Swing
by Jack Bowers
With swing making a mini–comeback in the States and abroad, here’s a high–quality band from Germany that powers its way through no less than 24 well–crafted charts that should have most lovers of swing on their feet and dancing before you can say “Tommy Dorsey.” While many of the songs on the band’s second release, A ...
University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab Band 1: Alive XVI: This One's for Buddy!
by Jack Bowers
The XVIth live recording by director Gene Aitken’s intrepid UNC Jazz Lab Band 1 is also a Ist — the first two–disc set in the series of concerts that dates back to the early ’80s. It is, however, the IInd dedicated to a long–time member of the UNC staff. Last year’s release, Alive XV: This One’s ...
Rolf Ericson with the Metropole Orchestra: Beautiful Love
by Jack Bowers
Sweden, which has produced an exceedingly large number of world–class Jazz musicians for a country its size, was home to one of the finest of them all, trumpeter Rolf Ericson, whose long and varied career ended with his passing in June 1997. Ericson, an impassioned bop–based improviser with a crystalline tone and irreprovable technique, performed with ...
University of Nevada-Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble: Coloring Outside the Lines
by Jack Bowers
The third recording by the uncommonly proficient UNLV Jazz Ensemble, and first under its new director, Rocky Winslow, gives an indication of the direction in which the program is moving. All but one of the eight selections were either written or arranged by students; the exception is Kenny Wheeler’s breezy toe–tapper, “Miold Man,” scored by pianist ...
Ken Schaphorst Big Band: Purple
by Jack Bowers
Unlike some Jazz composers who write unpretentious big–band charts designed to serve as springboards for soloists, Ken Schaphorst approaches the task with soloists in mind but focuses always on orchestral textures and colors, employing improvisation as an integral element in the over–all compositional makeup. Instead of playing “outside” the chart with rhythm accompaniment, as is so ...
UMO Jazz Orchestra: Selected Standards
by Jack Bowers
Finland’s superb and customarily adventurous 24–year–old UMO Jazz Orchestra devotes its attention to the Great American Songbook on Selected Standards, reframing these familiar works to suit its Nordic temperament and imparting to them a personality that’s as fresh and invigorating as a tone poem by Sibelius. From the marching drum, dancing piccolo and shifting time signatures ...
Northern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble: Swinging It Live
by Jack Bowers
After a brief and unmemorable excursion into Jazz’s nether regions some years ago, the well–respected Northern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble quickly returned “home” to the mainstream, where it has been lodged comfortably ever since, articulating the swinging credo of long–time director Ron Modell, now retired, and its newly appointed leader, Ron Carter (the saxophonist, not the ...
Ray Anthony: The Early Years
by Jack Bowers
The Early Years encompasses three sessions by trumpeter Ray Anthony’s dance–oriented orchestras. The plural is used because the first of these bands, which Anthony led for a time, was the U.S. Navy’s “Dolphins,” based first in Hawaii and later, at the end of World War II, on Okinawa. Tracks 1–10, by the Navy band, were recorded ...
Ray Anthony & His Orchestra: The Navy Show Broadcasts
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter Ray Anthony, a bandleader for more than half a century, led his first ensemble for the U.S. Navy during World War II, and performed a number of times on behalf of the Navy recruiting service from 1946–54, broadcasts from which the selections on this disc were taken. This is exclusively standard fare designed for dancing, ...
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