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Evanston Township High School Jazz Ensemble and Combo: ...All Save the Blues!
by Jack Bowers
The Evanston Township (IL) Jazz Ensemble (six tracks) and six-piece Combo (four) play respectably well in this program of Jazz standards and a couple of original charts recorded in May '97. While it's obvious that these are high-school musicians (the solos are always a dead giveaway), director Dave Fodor had his young charges well prepared for ...
Richard Simon: Covering the Basses
by Jack Bowers
On the second release for his own UFO-Bass label, bassist Richard Simon pays tribute to a number of other well-known timekeepers with a laid-back session whose aura is one of a late-night club date in which everyone is simply having a grand time grooving on the music they love and appreciate. After opening with a pair ...
Marian McPartland: Just Friends
by Jack Bowers
One of the nicer things about reviewing a new release by Marian McPartland is that one needn't prattle on about what a marvelous pianist she is - everyone knows that - and can move on to other fundamentals such as her choice of playing partners and the music itself, both of which are, in this case, ...
Chick Corea and Origin: Live at the Blue Note
by Jack Bowers
One thing that must be said about Chick Corea: musically, the man does not stand still. Whether one is going in his direction is another issue altogether. Chick's newest group, Origin, was recorded during a week-long gig in December '97 at New York's celebrated Birdland nightspot. It's a tight sextet with an exuberant front line - ...
The YSU All-Star Alumni Jazz Ensemble: Celebration
by Jack Bowers
Director Tony Leonardi and his colleagues have established an excellent Jazz Studies program at Ohio's Youngstown State University, many of whose distinguished alumni returned in 1994 for an all-star big-band concert to help mark the 125th anniversary of the university's Dana School of Music. The concert was recorded and released on disc as Celebration. This really ...
The Young Razzcals: Jazz Project, Volume 2
by Jack Bowers
If you think I'm going to say anything unkind or even negative about Albuquerque, New Mexico's Young Razzcals, you'd better check your head to make sure all the marbles are intact. Sure, they don't swing quite as hard or as consistently as Basie - yet - but there's a good reason for that; the average age ...
Texas Christian University Jazz Ensemble: When You're Smiling
by Jack Bowers
This is the second recording I've heard by TCU's Jazz Ensemble. The first, while generally impressive, had one prominent and, in the end, unbearable flaw: the engineer, who must have been in a hurry to go home, insisted on clipping the final note of every number before the last overtones had faded, which is exceedingly frustrating ...
The Pete Cater Big Band: Playing with Fire
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Pete Cater's big-band debut couldn't have been more appropriately named. Do Cater and his London-area comrades play with fire? “Youbetchalife" they do. The band comes out screamin' on Matt Wilson's galvanic opener (featuring Matt O'Regan's blazing piano) and never falters right on through the final bars of Monty Alexander's “Regulator." Yes, there are moments of ...
Roosevelt Jazz '97: Behind the Eight Ball
by Jack Bowers
I received this disc with a note from one of the band members saying how proud they are of it - as well they should be. It's such a kick to hear young men and women devoting their time and talents to the furtherance of Jazz, even when it's evident that they are of high-school age ...
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts: 20th Anniversary
by Jack Bowers
Three brief observations: first, Houston's Booker T. Washington High School has one of the more impressive Jazz ensembles we've heard at that level; second, far too much of its three-disc 20th anniversary chronicle is given over to vocal groups and various smaller combos or else devoted to funky arrangements that haven't weathered the passage of time; ...
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