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Jeff Zelnick: A Little More Than the Blues
by Jack Bowers
A player who writes - or a writer who plays? Jeff Zelnick performs so capably in both areas on his debut CD that it could be a toss-up. As a writer, Zelnick composed all selections on More Than the Blues except the old Eartha Kitt favorite, “C'est Si Bon." As a player, he meshes beautifully with ...
Oliver Jones: Have Fingers, Will Travel
by Jack Bowers
Nearly 70 minutes of awe-inspiring technical brilliance and emphatic swinging at any and all tempos by Canada's “other" wizard of the contemporary Jazz piano, Oliver Jones. The comparisons to Oscar Peterson are inescapable, so let's dispense with them first. Yes, Jones did study piano with Oscar's sister, Daisy; yes, his command of the keyboard and his ...
Greg Williamson & the Big Bad Groove Society: Swing Your Big Head
by Jack Bowers
When one has no idea what to envision, what ensues can sometimes be a pleasant surprise - which is exactly the case with drummer Greg Williamson's new release, Swing Your Big Head. From the instrumentation and (some) song titles, I was half expecting to hear a Dixieland group. What I heard instead was a pretty competent ...
Ken Peplowski: Grenadilla
by Jack Bowers
Ken Peplowski, who has done some experimenting of late within the big-band and classical spheres, comes home to a straight-ahead quartet groove for Grenadilla, on which he plays only clarinet (grenadilla is the name of the wood from which the world's finest clarinets are made). This is clarinet all the way, with Peplowski's group augmented by ...
Marvin "Doc" Holladay: Sweetness and Light
by Jack Bowers
Picture in your mind's eye Gerry without Chet but with a dash more rhythm. Got it? Okay, that's not precisely what we have here (Holladay's temperament and purpose are quite unlike Mulligan's, for one thing) but the over-all feeling prevails. This is a pianoless quartet with conguero Ozzie Orengo sitting in for Chet on Sonny Rollins' ...
Benny Golson: Tenor Legacy
by Jack Bowers
Benny Golson is back, this time with a salute to 10 legends of the tenor saxophone (including Benny himself, of course). It's such a daunting task that Golson has called for help, sharing the spotlight with tenors Branford Marsalis (on “Body and Soul," dedicated to Coleman Hawkins), Harold Ashby (on five tracks) and James Carter (on ...
Jimmy Amadie: Savoring Every Note
by Jack Bowers
Should someone decide to write a sequel to John F. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, and need suitable nominees for inclusion, here's mine. To the best of my knowledge, no pianist -- in fact, no musician -- has endured more hardship or overcome larger obstacles in the pursuit of aesthetic expression than Jimmy Amadie. I am ...
Dave Glenn Little Big Band: Journeys
by Jack Bowers
Trombonist Dave Glenn's 12-piece Little Big Band, which thanks to creative chartmaking is more big than little on Journeys, helps redress a clear-cut need, as there aren't many bands that size recording these days. In fact, even Glenn's band isn't recording these days, having completed this assignment more than three years ago, in April 1995. Since ...
The Woody Herman Orchestra: A Tribute to the Legacy of Woody Herman
by Jack Bowers
Legacy is the first recording by the Woody Herman Orchestra since Woody's passing in October 1987. As the latest Herd reprises briefly Herman's well-known theme, “Blue Flame," and dives impulsively into Jimmy Giuffre's classic, “Four Brothers," what becomes immediately apparent is that the band hasn't surrendered much ground under music director Frank Tiberi, even with guys ...
Joyce DiCamillo Trio: Moment to Moment
by Jack Bowers
Here's a compact unit that breathes almost as one while placing its lyric signature on an impressive program of well-known popular and Jazz standards. In his liner notes to the trio's third recording, Owen Cordle says DiCamillo's close-knit group reminds him of the early Ramsey Lewis Trio (with bassist Eldee Young and drummer Red Holt) or ...
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