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Scott McCloud Trio: Untitled
by Jack Bowers
Here’s a fast–paced blowing session by a trio (and sometimes a quartet) of eager young neo–boppers from Charlotte, North Carolina, who redeem in spontaneity what they may lack in seasoning or finesse. While the vocabulary hasn’t yet fully matured, one has the feeling they are at least engaging in a series of impromptu conversations whose scope ...
Ari Brown: Venus
by Jack Bowers
Listening to Chicago–based saxophonist Ari Brown’s second Delmark release, I am reminded of the oft–quoted refrain about the little girl who, when she was good was very, very good, but when she was bad . . . well, you know the rest. To those who prefer their Jazz straight–up, as I do, I can wholly recommend ...
Barrett Deems Big Band: Groovin' Hard
by Jack Bowers
When all is said and done, Barrett Deems departed the same way he came in — Groovin’ Hard. The 84–year–old dynamo, who succumbed last September to pneumonia, made one last trip to the recording studio in January ’98 to prove that neither he nor his robust big band was combating the infirmities usually associated with advancing ...
Harry Allen and Randy Sandke Meet the RIAS Big Band: Music of the Trumpet Kings
by Jack Bowers
If you’re feeling blue and need some music to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step, Trumpet Kings could be precisely what the doctor ordered. Happiness is the keynote from which this auspicious encounter between tenor Harry Allen, trumpeter Randy Sandke and Germany’s superb RIAS Big Band derives its creative impulse. ...
Tolvan Big Band: Plays the Music of Helge Albin
by Jack Bowers
While one still hears on occasion that the big bands are dead — and in this country, at least, many are on life support — Sweden, whose population is less than New York City’s, has today roughly 500 active big bands. Although it should be noted that the greater number of them are local amateur groups, ...
Bright Moments: Return of the Lost Tribe
by Jack Bowers
Bright Moments is a quintet comprised of members of Chicago’s avant–garde Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and Return of the Lost Tribe nods obliquely toward the “lost Hebrew tribes” of antiquity, although there seem to be no overt references to this, even in the largely opaque recitation on “Kudus.” While I’d heard the ...
Jane Miller Trio: Secret Pockets
by Jack Bowers
Boston–based Jane Miller, brand new to these ears, is a member of the faculty at the Berklee School of Music who plays a warm, vibrant guitar in the manner of a Jimmy Raney, Billy Bauer or Jim Hall (one of whose compositions, the digitally challenging “Waltz New,” is included on her second recording, Secret Pockets ). ...
Harry Goldson Big Band: Swing, Swing, Swing
by Jack Bowers
Bandleader Harry Goldson’s second release on Weatherbird is much like the first — Jazz–inflected dance music from the popular songbook, sometimes with strings, played in the manner of Ray Anthony, the Elgart brothers or Ted Heath. A second constant is the presence of some of Southern California’s finest studio and session players who give music director ...
Clare Fischer's Jazz Corps: Untitled
by Jack Bowers
And now, as John Cleese used to announce on the BBC’s Monty Python comedy series, for something completely different. Well, perhaps not completely, but at least different enough to arouse one’s curiosity and engage his/her attention. Clare Fischer, best known for his Latin–leaning compositions and arrangements for groups of various sizes both foreign and domestic, ventures ...
Beijbom Kroner Big Band: Opposites Attract
by Jack Bowers
The “opposites” in this case are co–leaders Lars Beijbom (Swedish drummer) and Erling Kroner (Danish trombonist), and while they may be poles apart in many respects, they do, thankfully, have at least one thing in common — Beijbom and Kroner are two of Europe’s foremost composer/arranger/musicians. What they have attracted are 17 first–class players, nine from ...
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