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Kim Portnoy Jazz Orchestra: Wash Away the Dust of Everyday Life
by Jack Bowers
St. Louis–based pianist Kim Portnoy’s picturesque big–band date is much more fun than its meditative title implies. It was drummer Art Blakey who said music should “wash away the dust of everyday life,” and Portnoy’s shuffling title selection, which swings merrily along in the finest Jazz Messengers tradition, is dedicated to Blakey. Other dedicatees include Jelly ...
The Rodger Fox Big Band: Xtra Juicy
by Jack Bowers
Trombonist/bandleader Rodger Fox, until recently one of New Zealand’s best–kept secrets, has for many years helped keep the flame of Jazz burning brightly in that faraway land Down Under. Fox’s impressive 19–piece ensemble surfaced in 1997 at the annual Conference of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) in Chicago, performed that same year in Los ...
Erling Kroner Dream Quintet: 'Ahi va el Negro'
by Jack Bowers
Denmark’s JAZZPAR project, nearing the end of its first decade, not only bestows one of Europe’s most prestigious awards each year to an outstanding Jazz musician (past winners have included Gary Burton, David Murray, Hank Jones, Lee Konitz, Tommy Flanagan, Roy Haynes, Bob Brookmeyer, Geri Allen and Jim Hall), it gives a prominent Danish musician the ...
Delmark Records: 45 Years of Jazz and Blues
by Jack Bowers
This double–disc set — the first devoted to Jazz, the second to blues — is designed to give the listener a broad overview of the sort of music produced by Delmark Records since Bob Koester established the Chicago–based label some 45 years ago. Delmark actually began life in St. Louis before relocating to Chicago with Koester, ...
Malachi Thompson: Freebop Now!
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter Malachi Thompson's new Delmark release marks the 20th anniversary of his Chicago-based Free-bop Band. As two decades have passed since its inception, it would seem a proper time to pose the question, what exactly is Free-bop? If one assumes that the “free" in Free-bop denotes music that is unstructured or inharmonious, such a premise is ...
Donald Edwards: In the Vernacular
by Jack Bowers
Perhaps I’ve become too — what’s the word I want — jaded? Spoiled? Whatever. The fact is that in spite of the complimentary liner notes by Ellis Marsalis, I couldn’t find much to get excited about while listening to drummer Donald Edwards’ debut, In the Vernacular — even with one of the contemporary scene’s shrewdest young ...
Tierney Sutton: Introducing Tierney Sutton
by Jack Bowers
Like many other talented jazz singers, Tierney Sutton loves to crank up the tempo and let 'er rip. Well and good. The problem is, she is far more engaging and persuasive when she's interpreting ballads, and it is the half-dozen ballads--"You're Nearer," “It Never Entered My Mind," “Morning Sun," “High Wire," “I'm a Fool to Want ...
Wessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Jack Bowers
Every so often, floating above the over–abundance of cookie–cutter mimes who overspread today’s mainstream Jazz scene, one hears a fresh and earnest new voice that causes him to do a double–take and say to himself, “Did I hear what I thought I heard?” That was my wholly unanticipated reaction as I listened for the first time ...
Buck Clayton Swing Band: Live from Greenwich Village, NYC
by Jack Bowers
If you’d like an up–to–date example of why the first Golden Age of big–band music in this country was known as the Swing Era, simply insert this wonderful disc, recorded in concert in February 1990, in your CD player and crank up the volume. This is music from the heart, a throwback to those memorable days ...
Chris Keller: Love Is the Answer
by Jack Bowers
This isn’t Chris Keller’s first recording, but it is the first on which she leads her own quartet/quintet and the first on which she sings as well as plays piano. With a name like Love Is the Answer, one might reasonably anticipate a session that drips with sugary sentiment, but Keller quickly dispels any such notion ...
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