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University of Kentucky Mega-Sax Quartet: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Rhythm Section!
by Jack Bowers
The Mega–Sax Quartet employs no rhythm section, but does use percussion on Mike Mower’s “Folly” and Paquito D’Rivera’s “ Monk–Tuno,” and — I loathe being the one to have to say this — would benefit enormously from the presence of a rhythm section, stinkin’ or otherwise. As an exercise in saxophone virtuosity, these concert/studio dates from ...
Eastman Jazz '96: Take the Next Step
by Jack Bowers
This is a representative cross–sample of Eastman’s Jazz Studies/Contemporary Media program circa 1995–96 with an opening number by the Jazz Ensemble and others by groups of various shapes, sizes and points of view with every selection composed, arranged and performed by students at the Rochester, New York, school. The ensemble is center stage for about eight ...
Bob Kase: A Weaver of Dreams
by Jack Bowers
Listening to trumpeter Bob Kase I’m reminded of Bobby Shew. Like Bobby, the tone on trumpet or flugel is bright and clear, the range exceptional, the chops razor–keen and equal to any task. Shew, of course, is much better known, but that’s to be expected when one’s career path leads him to big bands, studio work ...
Michael Pagan Quintet: Is Waiting for You
by Jack Bowers
Not at all what was foreseen, and so much for one’s preconceived notions. Knowing that Cadence Records has a tendency to veer toward the avant–garde, I suspected that this date by pianist Pagán’s quintet might answer to that description. Not so. I’ve checked and double–checked, and you can rest assured that Pagán delivers the whole package ...
Vaughn Nark: Somethin' Special
by Jack Bowers
It was no less an authority than Dizzy Gillespie who described multi–instrumental virtuoso Vaughn Nark as “somethin’ special.” Is Nark being immodest in using the compliment as the title of his Summit Jazz debut? Well, as the late poet laureate of baseball, Jerome Herman “Dizzy” Dean, once said, ”It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it ...
Miles Osland / Bill Anschell Trio: An Old Speckled Hen at Snapes Malting
by Jack Bowers
As Miles Osland says in the liner notes, Old Speckled Hen represents his “coming out” as a tenor saxophonist (he’s usually heard on alto, at least on recordings). As is the case on alto, he prefers doing things his way, assuming a stance that often is less than conventional if not unsparingly radical. While he never ...
Gary Burton: Like Minds
by Jack Bowers
When like minds get together, the results can be unpredictable. Will empathy lead to a spirit of freedom and adventure, or will the parallel thought processes translate instead into blandness? Adventure clearly wins the day on Like Minds, vibraphonist Gary Burton’s third release as leader for Concord Jazz. Even with Metheny’s guitar added and Corea’s piano ...
Anton Schwartz: When Music Calls
by Jack Bowers
Anton Schwartz, who could have pursued a career in any number of relatively lucrative fields (he earned a B.A. in math and philosophy summa cum laude from Harvard, a masters degree from Stanford), chose music instead -- more specifically, Jazz, which as many people know doesn't always pay the bills. Of course, that's not what it's ...
Harry Allen Quartet: Jazz im Amerika Haus, Vol. 1
by Jack Bowers
Young Harry Allen, a rising star among swing–based tenor saxophonists, is heard here in the company of a world–class rhythm section that helps him breeze confidently through a nearly eighty–minute–long concert consisting for the most part of well–known songs from the Golden Age of American popular music. Although Allen is no one’s clone, I am struck ...
Harry Allen Quintet: A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1
by Jack Bowers
Another in a series of recent triumphs by young (27–year–old) Harry Allen whose smooth, deep–throated and swing–based tenor saxophone benefits enormously from the presence on this concert date at Hamburg, Germany’s Birdland of chameleonlike trumpeter Randy Sandke and a topnotch rhythm section — one of whose members, the superb mainstream drummer Oliver Jackson, passed away only ...
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