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Count Basie Orchestra: Live at the Sands
by Jack Bowers
During a career that spanned more than sixty years, Frank Sinatra performed many times at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. When Ol’ Blue Eyes appeared there in February–March 1966, the occasion was especially memorable, as his “warm–up act” (and accompanist) was no less than the celebrated Count Basie Orchestra, a pairing that led to two ...
Gerry Mulligan: Mullenium
by Jack Bowers
Here’s baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan as big–band conductor/composer/arranger/player with his own ensemble and others led by Elliot Lawrence and Gene Krupa. These radiant sessions, recorded between 1946–57, show that Gerry was comfortably at home in any setting from pianoless quartet to full–fledged orchestra (big bands, in fact, were his early proving ground) and serve as a ...
Arturo Sandoval: Hot House
by Jack Bowers
On Hot House, the flashy Cuban–born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval coaxes a big–band sound from a group that is slightly smaller than Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau (two trumpets, two saxophones, two trombones and rhythm), adding a vigorous Latin beat shaped by drums, bass, piano, synthesizer and three rhythm specialists — Castrillo, Bonilla and Toledo — with ...
New Trier High School Jazz Ensembles: Storm Front
by Jack Bowers
You can rest assured that Jazz education is moving forward when high school ensembles start issuing two–disc sets to verify their development. Of course, New Trier High School, in the affluent North Shore suburb of Winnetka, about a half–hour north of Chicago, has a lot going for it, not the least of which is impressive parental ...
New Trier High School: New Trier High School Jazz Ensembles
by Jack Bowers
Among the pleasures I already miss since moving last October to North Carolina after 20 years in Illinois are the annual Jazz festivals at New Trier High School, which was less than a 20–minute drive up the road from our home in Wilmette. I looked forward to the February get–togethers, at which I heard the likes ...
University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble: You Must Have Heard By Now!
by Jack Bowers
This is the third recording by the UNF Jazz Ensemble, and it is somewhat more daring — but no less persuasive — than the first two. No, my ears had not deceived me; this is without a doubt (and in spite of an almost complete turnover in personnel since its last album) one of the most ...
Lalo Schifrin / WDR Big Band: Gillespiana
by Jack Bowers
Those who know Lalo Shifrin only from film scores and studio work may be surprised to learn that he once played piano in Dizzy Gillespie’s quintet. In 1960, Gillespie introduced Schifrin’s “Gillespiana,” a five–movement sound–portrait of Dizzy’s life and music that was completed only a few days after Gillespie asked him, “When are you going to ...
Nabil Totah: More Double Bass
by Jack Bowers
Nabil (Nobby) Totah has been a fixture on the Jazz scene in New York and elsewhere for almost half a century — I first heard him with the great Zoot Sims in the mid–’50s — but like most bassists, his opportunities to record as a leader have been scarce, which makes this partly–new release all the ...
Astral Project: Elevado / New Orleans LA
by Jack Bowers
There's an abundance of heat and creative energy flowing from the epicenter of Astral Project, a New Orleans-based quintet whose ethereal name belies its usual choice of straight-ahead bop-influenced Jazz with a Crescent City ambiance. While saxophonist Dagradi seems to be the main man, everyone in the ensemble has a well-defined role to play, and consummates ...
Steve Masakowski Trio: Live at Snug Harbor
by Jack Bowers
A no-frills session by New Orleans-based guitarist Steve Masakowski's trio that swings hard when necessary and embodies elements of surpassing warmth and loveliness as well. Perhaps “session" should be plural, as the disc actually covers two dates recorded at Snug Harbor in the fall of 1997 (Masakowski says he started recording “to document some of my ...
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