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Mark Masters: Honor Thy Fathers
by AAJ Staff
By Mark Masters Back in 1999, The American Jazz Institute embarked on a journey that has somehow lasted and continues to thrive at a small private college located in Southern California. The jazz program at Claremont McKenna College has three components. The first of which is a series of concerts that brings prominent ...
Mark Masters Ensemble with Lee Konitz: One Day With Lee
by Jerry D'Souza
To say that Lee Konitz has made some very valuable contributions to jazz would be stating the obvious. Now that I have done so, it is time to get on to his current recording. Konitz stands amidst the Mark Masters Ensemble, a 14-piece band that gives the saxophonist the space to invent or re-invent ...
The Mark Masters Ensemble: One Day with Lee
by Jack Bowers
Having heard The Clifford Brown Project and now One Day with Lee, featuring the peerless alto saxophonist (and composer) Lee Konitz, I can hardly wait to hear what the Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble and its sponsor, the American Jazz Institute, plan to do next. If these aren’t two of the finest big-band albums of the past ...
The Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble: The Clifford Brown Project
by Jack Bowers
We don’t hand out stars with our reviews at All About Jazz, but if we did, this spectacular tribute to legendary trumpeter Clifford Brown by the Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble would easily earn five of them—or a solid ten on the oft-quoted “scale of one-to-ten.” Some albums are good, some are better than good, while others, ...
Early Start
By Mark Masters
Label: Americatone
Released: 2001
Track listing: Dance; September Morn; Turtle Talk; A Time for Love; Film at Eleven; You Must Believe in Spring; Out of Nowhere; Early Start (40:47).
The Mark Masters Jazz Orchestra: Early Start
by Jack Bowers
I’d heard the Mark Masters Jazz Orchestra before and been disappointed — not by the orchestra itself but by the recording, which sounded dry and sterile, almost as though it had been recorded in someone’s closet or a telephone booth. This reissue on Americatone is much better, both sonically and aesthetically. Masters has fashioned his ensemble ...
