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The Tremble Kids All-Stars: Play Chicago Jazz!
by Jack Bowers
It says on the label that the Tremble Kids play “100 percent approved Eddie Condon Jazz." Well, I'm certainly in no position to question that claim. What I can tell you is that the Tremble Kids group has been around in some form or other since 1951 and numbers in its ranks some of Europe's foremost ...
Oliver Pospiech's Small Big Band: Cool Blue
by Jack Bowers
Pospiech's band may be small in size (the core group is actually an octet) but not in artistry or charisma. For his debut as leader the German-born valve trombonist, who cites Rob McConnell and Bob Brookmeyer among his influences (and sounds almost like them), has chosen his sidemen and his music with great care. The rhythm ...
The International All-Stars: Play Benny Goodman, Volume 2
by Jack Bowers
Boy, do they ever! The belief in and enthusiasm for the swing music of the great B.G. bubbles to the surface everywhere in this exuberant concert date by the six-member group of International All-Stars (who are joined on the last three numbers by ace clarinetists Allan Vaché and Antti Sarpila). Each of these “stars" has a ...
The Vach: Side by Side
by Jack Bowers
This really is a family affair with three members of the Vaché brood and two each from the Allred and Metz clans coming together to perform some good old-fashioned trad Jazz. All are well known among followers of the music, and their credentials are impeccable. They bridge two generations with Ed Metz Sr. on piano and ...
The Allan Vach: Revisited!
by Jack Bowers
The title of this session refers to the fact that Vaché's quartet is “revisiting" the music of the classic Sidney Bechet/Muggsy Spanier recordings without “recreating" it (which would have been not only foolish but unnecessary). Only two songs put on wax by Bechet/Spanier ("China Boy," “Four or Five Times") are included along with one of Bechet's ...
Rosemary Clooney: A Seventieth Birthday Celebration
by Jack Bowers
Mixed emotions - on the one hand, surprise that Rosemary Clooney has reached the age of 70; on the other, gratitude that she remains at 70 one of our finest interpreters of American popular song. There aren't many who are in Rosie's league (and one less since Sinatra's passing). Mel Tormé is still on the scene, ...
Susannah McCorkle: Someone to Watch Over Me
by Jack Bowers
Having reviewed favorably Susannah McCorkle's seventh Concord recording, in which she ably interpreted more than a dozen of the wonderful songs of Irving Berlin, I can do no less for No. 8, an earnest tribute to the music of the immortal George Gershwin. Simply put, McCorkle is a singer who leaves scant room for complaint. Although ...
Jesse Davis: First Insight
by Jack Bowers
Jesse Davis, one of the country's finest post-Cannonball boppers, plays with splendid precision on First Insight, all of whose nine compositions he wrote - but I can remember his having played with more intensity on other occasions (High Standards, for example, or From Within). While there is warmth peeking through here from time to time, the ...
Matthias Lupri: Window Up Window Down
by Jack Bowers
A melodically invigorating session consisting of nine largely easygoing compositions by the quartet's leader, German-born and American-raised vibraphonist Matthias Lupri. The album's title denotes one of Lupri's more prominent inspirations, the window in his Boston apartment through which he often gazes at the passing parade while composing. Through that window he sees “Children," “The Fruitlady," the ...
Robert Mazurek: Playground
by Jack Bowers
This is an interesting and varied session, one for which chief planner Rob Mazurek deserves no less than a solid “e" for effort. Mazurek, whose main ax is cornet, has plowed under his hard-boppin' roots and started afresh on a Playground that more closely conforms to his evolving musical perspective. Mazurek is accompanied on the odyssey ...
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