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Bob Lark: First Steps
by Jack Bowers
Most Jazz educators are enterprising players in their own right, and many have an understandable urge to plunge into the far–flung ocean of performance and splash around from time to time. Trumpeter Bob Lark, whose day gig is coordinator of Jazz Studies at Chicago’s DePaul University (and whose resumé includes a doctorate in Jazz performance from ...
The Kerry Strayer Septet: Jeru Blue: A Tribute to Gerry Mulligan
by Jack Bowers
Palmetto Records has struck gold again with Jeru Blue, Kansas City–based saxophonist Kerry Strayer’s heartfelt and picturesque salute to one of his earliest musical influences, the peerless Gerry Mulligan. It was after hearing a recording by Mulligan and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond that Strayer was hooked forever on the baritone, which he wields in a style ...
Oliver Jones: Just in Time
by Jack Bowers
This could be an uncommonly brief review. After acknowledging that Canadian Oliver Jones is one of the most consistently inventive and technically awesome mainstream Jazz pianists on the planet, one who is at the absolute pinnacle of his typically hard–swinging creative powers on this newly released two–disc concert date from Justin Time, there’s not a whole ...
Gene Harris & the Philip Morris All-Stars: Live
by Jack Bowers
All–Stars? They don’t shine much brighter than this. Most of these gentlemen have been winning Jazz polls and receiving other well–deserved honors for many years. The exception is drummer Nash, a relative newcomer who isn’t winning many polls — yet — but should be, and who certainly isn’t out of place among these heavyweights. This concert, ...
Bob Mintzer Quartet: Quality Time
by Jack Bowers
As “quality time” is wholly subjective, others may find time spent with saxophonist Bob Mintzer’s quartet(s) far more pleasurable than I. On the one hand, Mintzer is a first–rate player, consistently resourceful and well–respected by his fellow musicians; on the other, he seldom manages to induce even the slightest response from my emotional nerve–center — even ...
The Phil Norman Tentet: Yesterday's Gardenias
by Jack Bowers
The Phil Norman Tentet’s debut, On the Town,, recorded in 1996 and released last year, was such an unqualified success that living up to it posed an immense challenge. If the ensemble’s second endeavor, Yesterday’s Gardenia’s, doesn’t quite scale the Olympian heights reached by On the Town, it climbs so near that one has to applaud ...
Lalo Schifrin: Metamorphosis -- Jazz Meets the Symphony, Vol. 4
by Jack Bowers
The fourth in pianist Lalo Schifrin’s series of “classical/Jazz” encounters is perhaps the most rewarding to date, thanks in large measure to Lalo’s unflagging imagination, his superb compositions and arrangements, and the inspiriting presence of several renowned guest artists including bassist Ray Brown, drummer Jeff Hamilton, Australian trumpet master James Morrison, conga drummer Francisco Aguabella and ...
Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensembles: Mean What You Say
by Jack Bowers
Here are three editions of Princeton University’s award–winning Concert Jazz Ensemble, recorded in 1990, ’91 and ’95, in an engaging program of compositions by a number of Jazz’s elder statesmen (Dizzy Gillespie, Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Billy Strayhorn, Miles Davis/Victor Feldman, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Heath) and three relative newcomers (Gary Lindsay, Bob Meyer, Michael Philip Mossman). ...
Michael Philip Mossman Sextet: Mama Soho
by Jack Bowers
Although this is trumpeter Michael Philip Mossman’s second release as leader on the Swiss TCB label, I’d previously heard him only in the confines of big–band recordings, and this was the first chance to listen to him “stretch” with his own smaller group. Stretch he can, and stretch he does in a buoyant and colorful session ...
Capital University Jazz Ensemble: Spectrum
by Jack Bowers
This is an amiable, easy–grooving session by five gentlemen who make their living teaching young people the fundamentals of Jazz. They’ve learned those fundamentals well, and put them to productive use in a varied mainstream program that won’t set any worlds afire but breezes nicely along from start to finish with enterprising work by all hands. ...
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