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Mike Suter

Caution: Brief Column Ahead...

by Jack Bowers
June 4, 2012

This may be one of the shortest columns I've written in fourteen-plus years at All About Jazz. The fact is, not much has happened this month in our little corner of big band jazz, and there is almost nothing to report. About all we can do is look forward to events on the horizon: Jazz Under ...

"Modern Sounds," or: Running a Marathon in Full Body Armor

by Jack Bowers
November 8, 2011

From October 19-25 Betty and I were at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel to attend Modern Sounds, the L.A. Jazz Institute's four-day salute to West Coast jazz, followed by a day-long tribute to Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of the legendary bandleader's birth. We arrived a day early to be primed and ready for ...

Jack's Gone! No He Isn't; Yes He Is; No He Isn't...!

by Jack Bowers
July 8, 2011

As I sat down to write this month's column, word came that trumpeter Jack Sheldon had died. No sooner had I written a few words about that when word came that trumpeter Jack Sheldon had not died. After some back-and-forth on the internet (is he or isn't he?), the last report, it seems, was the true ...

The Geezer Strikes!

By Mike Suter

Label: American Creative Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Phui!; Codgerosity; Five and Dime; Mid-Life Crisis; Sambagua; Forrest Grump; I

Mike Suter and Slidewerke: The Geezer Strikes!

by Jack Bowers
July 16, 2007

The “geezer herein is bass trombonist Mike Suter, who had been thinking about recording this album for years and decided to turn thought into action when he glanced in the mirror one recent morning and “some old dude was lookin' back at me. Ready or not, Slidewerke's time had arrived. Though Suter didn't exactly strike while ...