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Chris Hazelton: In Rotation
by Jack Bowers
Here is a quartet with an interesting makeup: leader Chris Hazelton on Hammond B3 organ backed by saxophone, vibraphone and drums. It is a sizable departure from the norm, one that can separate an album from the herd and lend it a bracing and singular voice or, if not managed properly, lead to series of relatively ...
Richard Baratta: Another Kind of Bird
by Jack Bowers
Even today, more than seventy years after his death at the young age of thirty-four, the legendary alto saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird" Parker remains incomparable, as a player and composer who almost singlehandedly changed the vocabulary of jazz, introducing revisions and concepts that have never worn thin or gone out of style. Simply put, no one had ...
Rich Willey: Laid Back Vol. 1, featuring John Swana
by Jack Bowers
Chicago-based trumpeter and composer Rich Willey oversees an impressive eleven-piece ensemble on Best Laid Plans, which embodies seven of his melodically enticing and rhythmically strong compositions, all neatly arranged by Wally Minko. The one clear drawback in this otherwise pleasing session, however, is an incessant rock beat, which lends an aura of sameness to ...
Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet: A Blue Time
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Joe Syrian's spit-shined Motor City Jazz Octet keeps driving emphatically forward on its second recording, A Blue Time, using an impressive arsenal to scurry through a generally agreeable lineup of more or less familiar themes that have been given fresh coats of paint by seven astute and talented arrangers. Even with the various ...
Bobby Sanabria: Arsenio and Beyond
by Jack Bowers
Much of the music on Arsenio and Beyond was written by the trailblazing Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez, a master of the mandolin-like Cuban tres guitar who is credited among other innovations with creating the musical design that became known as son montuno. Rodriguez, drummer and bandleader Bobby Sanabria writes, was “the true Father of Mambo and ...
Ted Chubb: Live at The Statuary
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter, composer and educator Ted Chubb leads a blue-chip quintet on Live at The Statuary, recorded during four concert sessions in March 2025 at the historic Jersey City, New Jersey, site that Chubb co-owns with his wife, Rachel Ryll. This is wall-to-wall hard bop jazz wherein Chubb and his front-line partner, alto saxophonist Bruce Williams, tread ...
Owen Chen: Eternal Wind
by Jack Bowers
Every song on guitarist Owen Chen's album Eternal Wind was written or co-written as part of a film score by Joe Hishaishi of Japan's animation company, Studio Ghibli. “The music, stories and emotions we encounter as children stay with us," Chen writes. “Eternal Wind aims to bring forth melodies that live in our past, with our ...
Terry Waldo & The Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 3
by Jack Bowers
When it comes to ragtime jazz, pianist, historian, author, and cultural preservationist Terry Waldo literally wrote the book. Said book is This Is Ragtime (Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc., 1976), widely regarded as the most thorough and authoritative guide to one of modern jazz's early precursors. Treasury, Volume 3 is the last in a trilogy of ...
Christine Fawson: It Could Happen to You
by Jack Bowers
A trumpet player who sings or a singer who plays trumpet? Christine Fawson puts those questions to the test (again) on It Could Happen to You, the fifth recording under her leadership, playing trumpet and singing on every one of the album's 11 carefully-mined selections from the Great American Songbook. The obvious answer is that Fawson ...
Eli Howell: Steps Taken
by Jack Bowers
Picture this: Having assembled a supporting cast, finalized the playlist and booked a studio, you are ready to make the debut recording as leader of your own ensemble, only to learn that, hours earlier, said studio in East Lansing, Michigan, had been devastated by a tornado. That is exactly what happened to trombonist Eli Howell in ...
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