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The Mark Masters Ensemble: Blue Skylight
by Jack Bowers
California-based composer / arranger Mark Masters, who has already recorded salutes to Clifford Brown, Jimmy Knepper, Dewey Redman, Steely Dan, the Gershwin brothers and even the Duke Ellington saxophone section, directs his attention and considerable talents this time around to the music of a pair of legendary jazz trend-setters who were in many respects polar opposites: ...
The Mark Masters Ensemble: Blue Skylight
by Dan McClenaghan
Mark Masters has made his name in the banderleader/arranger arena fronting The Mark Master Ensemble, in various forms, with personal tributes to past masters: saxophonist Dewey Redman, Duke Ellington, trumpeter Clifford Brown, and present master, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, who played as the featured artist on One Day With Lee (Capri Records (2000). These are all ...
Doug MacDonald: Just for Fun
by Jack Bowers
While there are no household names on guitarist Doug MacDonald's new 2-CD set, Just for Fun (alto saxophonist Lanny Morgan or perhaps drummer Roy McCurdy may come closest), the sidemen he has chosen for a lively concert date billed as a “jazz marathon" are more than likely among the more accomplished jazz musicians you've seldom or ...
Toni Tennille and the Matt Catingub Big Band - Things are Swingin’
Label: Purebred
Released: 1994
Track listing: I Wish I were in Love Again (Hart/Rodgers); Things are Swingin’ (Peggy Lee/Jack Marshall); Making Whoopee
(Donaldson/Kahn); You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (Mercer/Warren); Alright, Okay, You Win (Wyche/Watts);
Teach Me Tonight (Cahn/DePaul); Caravan (Ellington/Mills/Tizol); Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Brown/Henderson); It’s
So Nice to have a Man Around the House (Spina/Elliott); I Got Rhythm (Gershwin/Gershwin); Pardon My Southern
Accent (Mercer/Malneck); Memphis in June (Carmichael/Webster); Hard Hearted Hannah (Bates/Yellen/Ager/Bigelow);
This Can’t Be Love (Rodgers/Hart); That Old Black Magic (Mercer/Arlen); Mañana (Peggy Lee/Dave Barbour)
The Matt Catingub Big Band “My Mommy and Me”
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 1990
Track listing: Blues and the Abscessed Tooth (Matt Catingub); When You Fall in Love (Matt Catingub); Nobody Else But Me
(Kern/Hammerstein); A Salute to Elvis Costello (Matt Catingub) soloists Buddy Childers & Chris Doc Stewart; Stomping
at the Savoy (Good an/Sampson/Webb); I Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good (Ellington/Webster); Medley : School Days
(Edward’s/Cobb) - Teach Me Tonight (Cahn/DePaul); Bopularity (Matt Catingub)
Your Friendly Neighborhood Big Band
Label: Reference Recordings
Released: 1989
Track listing: Don’t Be That Way (Goodman/Sampson/Parish); Honeysuckle Rose (Waller/Razaf); Bloozball (Matt Catingub); Work
Song (Nat Adderley); Easy Living (Robin/Ranger); Jeanine (Wolfe/Filkret); You Leave Me Breathless (Fried/Hollander);
Donna Lee (Charlie Parker); Baubles, Bangles, and Beads (Wright/Forest); Ballad (Matt Catingub); Your Friendly
Neighborhood Big Band (Matt Catingub)
Matt Catingub High Tech Big Band
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 1986
Track listing: More Blues and the Abscessed Tooth (Matt Catingub); Thad-ish (Matt Catingub); The Umpire Strikes Back (Matt
Catingub); Don’t Blame Me (Fields/McHugh); Donna Lee (Charlie Parker); Don’t Be That Way
(Goodman/Sampson/Parish); Honeysuckle Rose (Razaf/Waller); Back to Basieques (Matt Catingub); Somoana (Matt
Catingub); Indian Riffs (Steve Rosenblum/Albert Alva/Matt Catingub); Every Breath You Take (Sting)
